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Poetry Extra: Ezra Caged

16/10/2016

Ezra Caged

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Poetry Extra, Ezra Caged

Poet in Residence Daljit Nagra introduces Ezra Caged, presented by Jeremy Harding.

4 Extra Debut. BBC Radio 4's Poet in Residence Daljit Nagra introduces Ezra Caged, presented by Jeremy Harding. From July 2008.

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

Jeremy Harding reads and explores the Pisan Cantos, the poems written by the American Modernist poet Ezra Pound during his time in prison in Italy at the end of the Second World War.

He had been arrested towards the end of the war after making pro-Mussolini radio broadcasts, and for a time was held in a wire cage at a detention camp near Pisa. It was in these conditions that he drafted what have gone on to be regarded as the finest section of his long Cantos sequence. 

Producer: Tim Dee

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in July 2008.

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