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Weekly opportunity for listeners to revisit the riches of the BBC radio poetry archive

A brand new poetry slot on Radio 4 Extra gives listeners a weekly opportunity to revisit the riches of the BBC radio poetry archive

Poetry Extra: Contemporary American Poets - Charles Simic and Louise Gluck

07/08/2016

Contemporary American Poets - Charles Simic and Louise Gluck

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Poetry Extra, Contemporary American Poets - Charles Simic and Louise Gluck

Daljit Nagra introduces Postscript: Contemporary American Poets featuring Gluck and Simic.

Daljit Nagra introduces Postscript: Contemporary American Poets featuring Americans Louise Gluck and Charles Simic. From July 1999.

BBC Radio 4's Poet in Residence, Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's radio poetry archive with Postscript: Contemporary American Poets. 

Louise Gluck and Serbian born, Charles Simic, both winners of the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, read a selection of their work. First heard on BBC Radio 3 in 1999. 

Plus Daljit selects an interview with Charles Simic by Ian MacMillan from Radio 3's The Verb in 2009.

Produced for BBC Radio 4 Extra by Sarah Wade.

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