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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: In Pursuit of Edward Thomas

In Pursuit of Edward Thomas

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Poetry Extra, In Pursuit of Edward Thomas

Daljit Nagra chooses the very best from the BBC's poetry archive.

Poet Daljit Nagra introduces In Pursuit of Edward Thomas. Matthew Hollis follows a journey made by the war poet. From 2017.

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's radio poetry archive and selects  In Pursuit of Edward Thomas.  

The poet Edward Thomas died at the Battle of Arras over 100 years ago on 9th April 1917.  

He'd been a poet for little more than two years and his collected works amount to only a slim volume. Nevertheless he is regarded as among the greatest of English poets.  

What made him so?  Poet and editor, Matthew Hollis, follows a journey Thomas made by bike in the spring of 1913 from London into south west England.  

It was a journey that produced a prose book for Thomas, In Pursuit of Spring, but it was also a journey that turned him towards poetry.  

Producer: Tim Dee

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2017.

Plus Daljit reads a poem from his Poetry Extra Book of the Month:   Baby Schema by Isabel Galleymore.

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