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The Price of an Eye

on BBC Radio 3

An appreciation of the life and work of the poet Thomas Blackburn , who died in August 1977. by Jean MacVean with readings by HUGH DICKSON
' Blackburn believed that the true poet had the double-vision of Odin, who chose to lose his right eye to gain the powers of poetry and prophecy. The poet uses his blinded eye to penetrate his inner darkness and the other to observe the outside world.' Producer
MICHAEL HEFFERNAN followed by an interlude

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Thomas Blackburn
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Jean MacVean
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Hugh Dickson
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Michael Heffernan

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