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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: Tracy K Smith and Patricia Lockwood

11/02/2018

Tracy K Smith and Patricia Lockwood

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Poetry Extra, Tracy K Smith and Patricia Lockwood

Paul Farley hears new work from two young American poets.

Paul Farley hears new work from two young American poets, Tracy K Smith and Patricia Lockwood. From July 2016.

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's radio poetry archive selecting The Echo Chamber with Tracy K Smith and Patricia Lockwood. 

Outside of a few famous names, recent British poetry has made little impact on American life and letters. The same might be said in reverse: though we speak the same language, our poetries are oddly discrete. 

Paul Farley hears from two younger female American voices:

Tracy K Smith's book 'Life on Mars' won a Pulitzer Prize for her poems about space and race and David Bowie. 

Patricia Lockwood's writing-life on Twitter is watched from around the world and her 'sexts' and her 'Rape Joke' poem brought her a celebrity very rare in poetry. 

Both poets read from their groundbreaking books and share some new poems too. 

Producer: Tim Dee

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2016.

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