After Dark Festival: The Chance to Change

After Dark Festival: The Chance to Change

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Sibling relationships with Blake Morrison, Natalie Shapero, Tara Bergin, and the word 'literally'

Ian McMillan is joined by Blake Morrison with the poetry of sibling relationships, Natalie Shapero - who reports poetically from the world of cinema in L.A., and Tara Bergin, who looks at how to escape from a poem, as well as sharing a 'Neon Line' with us. We also have our cartoo ...  Show more

George Szirtes, Iryna Starovoyt, Zain Rishi, Katie Clarke

George Szirtes, winner of the T. S. Eliot Prize and the King’s Gold Medal for Poetry, is the most recent poet to join the small selection panel for arguably the UK's most public celebration of poetry - Poems on the Underground. As the London Tube initiative reaches its 40th birth ...  Show more

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