Poetry Extra: Lost Voices

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Poetry Extra: Lost Voices - Padraic Fiacc

Lost Voices - Padraic Fiacc

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Poetry Extra, Lost Voices - Padraic Fiacc

Daljit Nagra introduces Lost Voices presented by Brian Patten featuring Padraic Fiacc.

Daljit Nagra introduces Lost Voices:  Padraic Fiacc presented by Brian Patten.   A poet described as 'The Voice of the Troubles' in his native Northern Ireland.   From 2010.

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's radio poetry archive and chooses Lost Voices:  Padraic Fiacc presented by Brian Patten.

Padraic Fiacc was born in Belfast in the mid-1920s and migrated with his family to New York in search of a less violent society - unfortunately they found themselves in the notorious Hell's Kitchen area where social problems were rife and gang warfare raged. 

Coming back to Belfast later in his life, Fiacc recognised many of these social problems and was able to write about them with an outsider's eye. His straightforward language and spare, stark style marked him out from the more lyrical poets writing in the great Irish tradition, and for decades he has been cold-shouldered by the literary establishment. 

Brian Patten tells the story, illustrated with some of Fiacc's most poignant and sometimes disturbing poems.

Reader: Jonjo O'Neill. 

Producer: Christine Hall

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2010.

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