A series of six personal documentaries written by contemporary poets, part of the Commissions and Collaborations season.

"For the poets there was the challenge of writing the equivalent of an epic while, for the directors, there was the sometimes difficult discipline of allowing the poetry to inform the direction," says series producer Peter Symes.
Devices of Detachment
Damian Gorman looks at the violence in Northern Ireland, and at the way this has numbed the people of the Province.
(Stereo) (Teletext subtitles: p 888)
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