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17/06/2016

Elena Lappin, Mark Waldron, Gemma Ray, Matthew and Michael Dickman

BBC Radio 4 - The Verb, Elena Lappin, Mark Waldron, Gemma Ray, Matthew and Michael Dickman

Ian McMillan presents Radio 3's cabaret of the word with guests Elena Lappin and Gemma Ray

Ian McMillan presents Radio 3's cabaret of the word, with novelist Elena Lappin, poets Mark Waldron, Matthew and Michael Dickman and singer-songwriter Gemma Ray.

Ian's guests this week include the writer Elena Lappin. Elena is a writer, editor and translator who speaks five languages, Russian, Czech, German, Hebrew, and English. Elena's memoir 'What Language Do I Dream In?' (Virago) asks how you find a voice in a language that is not your own. 

Mark Waldron is a poet whose poems are full of comic imagery, but are never really joking. His latest collection 'Meanwhile, Trees' is published by Bloodaxe.

Gemma Ray is a singer-songwriter who will be performing songs from her new album 'The Exodus Suite'.

Matthew and Michael Dickman are twins. Although they write very different kinds of poetry, they are united by the unflinching poems that make up their join collection 'Brother' (Faber), a book that examines the suicide of their older brother.

Producer: Cecile Wright.

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