Poetry Extra: Lindisfarne: Poetry in Progress

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Lindisfarne: Poetry in Progress

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Daljit Nagra introduces the responses of twelve poets to the Lindisfarne Gospel.

Poet Daljit Nagra introduces Lindisfarne: Poetry in Progress presented by Beaty Rubens. From 2013.

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's radio poetry archive with 'Lindisfarne: Poetry in Progress'. 

After four centuries - the Lindisfarne Gospel-book returned to the North-East of England in in 2013 - not as far as the island itself, but to Palace Green Library in Durham. 

To mark the occasion, the Newcastle Centre for the Literary Arts commissioned 12 poets to respond to the book and to the almost-island on which it was created. 

Beaty Rubens followed the poets' progress - sharing crab sandwiches and beer on a coach-trip to the island back in the spring and hearing about their progress over the summer and early autumn as they each wrote and recorded their poems. 

Finally, she hears from the digital artist who created two installations where the poems could be enjoyed by the public.

This is the story of their Poetry in Progress. 

Producer: Beaty Rubens

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2013.

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