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The Verb: Lorna Goodison and Jorie Graham

Lorna Goodison and Jorie Graham

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Ian McMillan shares extended interviews with poets Lorna Goodison and Jorie Graham.

Ian McMillan shares extended interviews with poets Lorna Goodison and Jorie Graham. Goodison is the Jamaican Poet Laureate, while Graham was recently awarded the Pulitzer prize.

The idea of ghosts, as literary influences, our former selves, or in the form of the ghostfishing nets that sit abandoned on the deep sea floor haunt the interviews in this Verb - as Ian McMillan spends some extra time with two world-class poets: Jamaican Poet Laureate Lorna Goodison and the American Pulitzer Prize winning writer Jorie Graham. 



Presenter: Ian McMillan
Producer: Faith Lawrence.

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