Poetry Extra: Emily Dickinson, Fred D'Aguiar, Grace Nichols,John Agard

Poetry Extra - Emily Dickinson, Fred D'Aguiar, Grace Nichols and John Agard

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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: Emily Dickinson, Fred D'Aguiar, Grace Nichols and John Agard

Emily Dickinson, Fred D'Aguiar, Grace Nichols and John Agard

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Poetry Extra, Emily Dickinson, Fred D'Aguiar, Grace Nichols and John Agard

Poet Daljit Nagra selects the very best programmes from the BBC's Poetry archive.

Daljit Nagra selects Twenty Minutes: Fred D’Aguiar on Emily Dickinson; plus poems by Grace Nichols and John Agard.  From 2010.

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's radio poetry archive and selects Twenty Minutes: Fred D’Aguiar on Emily Dickinson; plus poems from Three Score and Ten featuring  Grace Nichols, John Agard and Fred D'Aguiar.  

Twenty Minutes: Fred D’Aguiar on Emily Dickinson
The American poet Emily Dickinson was very reclusive and spent most of her adult life in her room in Amherst, Massachusetts where, after her death, her extraordinary poems were discovered. When Aaron Copland composed the settings of her poems to music he spent many hours there trying to capture something of the spirit of Emily Dickinson. Someone who knows the room well is the poet Fred D'Aguiar, who lived in Amherst for several years. He reflects on Emily Dickinson's room, the place where he himself writes, and the significance of "The Poet's Room".

Reader - Christine Kavanagh.

Producer – Julian May.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in 2010.

Three Score and Ten:  Grace Nichols, John Agard and Fred D'Aguiar.  

Three Score and Ten features archive recordings from the last seven decades of the Third Programme and Radio 3, with 70 remarkable poets reading their own poems. 

Ian McMillan continues with three poets originally from the Caribbean. Reading their new poems from Poetry Now 1982 Grace Nichols reads 'Night is Her Robe', John Agard 'Pan Recipe' and Fred D'Aguiar extracts from his 'Mama Dot' sequence.

Producer: Sharon Sephton

First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in 2016.













From 2010.

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