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Poetry Extra: The Echo Chamber - The Body

21/05/2017

The Echo Chamber - The Body

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Poetry Extra, The Echo Chamber - The Body

Poet-in-Residence Daljit Nagra introduces The Echo Chamber - about the shapes of poems.

4 Extra Debut. Poet-in-Residence Daljit Nagra introduces The Echo Chamber - about the shapes of poems. Presented by Paul Farley. From February 2013.

BBC Radio 4's Poet in Residence, Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's radio poetry with an edition of 'The Echo Chamber'. 

Paul Farley looks at the body in question - the shapes of poems and the people in them. How does a poet decide on the form of their poem? What do different poetic forms do to the subject of a poem? The programme travels the country and anatomises its poetic body. With found poems and field-notes, a diary of failure and success, the sound of the world being taken down in rhyme, and a look into a hive of dead bees in midwinter. 

With poems from Sean Borodale, Don Paterson and Alice Oswald. 

Producer: Tim Dee

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2013.

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