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Poetry Extra: Lost Voices - Dom Moraes

28/02/2016

Lost Voices - Dom Moraes

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Poetry Extra, Lost Voices - Dom Moraes

Daljit Nagra introduces Lost Voices featuring Indian poet Dom Moraes.

4 Extra Debut. Daljit Nagra introduces Lost Voices featuring the Indian poet Dom Moraes who was an exile in two continents. From April 2009.

BBC Radio 4's Poet in Residence, Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's radio poetry archive. 

'Lost Voices' features Dom Moraes - who arrived in 1950s Soho as an exotic novelty, a beautiful Indian-born poet with a classical English education. He quickly found an outrageous and untameable muse, Henrietta. Their married life together was stormy and ended with Dom literally walking out to buy a packet of cigarettes and moving back to India. 

When Brian Patten met him and his third wife there in the mid-1980s, Dom had achieved a kind of peace, but in truth he seemed to be a man who was never quite at home either in India or England. Brian tells Dom's story and presents a selection of his poetry. 

Producer: Christine Hall 

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2009.

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