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Poetry Extra: Landmark Poetics

22/07/2018

Landmark Poetics

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Poetry Extra, Landmark Poetics

Daljit Nagra selects Lemn Sissay's meditations on the public role of poetry outdoors.

4 Extra Debut. Poet Daljit Nagra selects 'Lemn Sissay: Landmark Poetics', meditating on the public role of poetry in the outdoors. From March 2015.

An exploration of the increasing amount of poetry in Britain's outdoors. 

In the early 90s, for a bet, Lemn wrote a poem for one of his favourite pubs - Hardy's Well in Rusholme, Manchester. Since then, he and many other poets have written more and more for public spaces in Britain - both urban and rural. Travelling to Hebden Bridge, Little Sparta in Lanarkshire, Manchester and London, he asks what these poems are doing in the outdoors, if they really belong there, and who they are for?

Interviews include Simon Armitage talking about the Stanza Stones poems he wrote for the Pennine Watershed, text artist Robert Montgomery, Canal Laureate of the UK Jo Bell, and the letter carver Pip Hall.

Producer: Philippa Geering
Sound Design: Charlie Brandon-King

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