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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: Make Perhaps This Out Sense Of Can You

Make Perhaps This Out Sense Of Can You

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Poetry Extra, Make Perhaps This Out Sense Of Can You

Daljit Nagra selects the very best programmes from the BBC's poetry archives.

Daljit Nagra selects Make Perhaps This Sense of Can You with experimental poet Bob Cobbing. With Iain Sinclair. From 2011.

Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archives and selects  Make Perhaps This Sense of Can You with experimental poet Bob Cobbing.

Bob's playful experiments with sound and text have inspired a generation of poets, artists and composers. A writer whose work skittered between literature and music, poetry and artwork - he is, perhaps, best remembered for his extraordinary poetry readings. With his operatic, resonant voice he would boom, howl, chant and whisper leaving his audience enchanted and enraged in equal measures.

In this programme, we delve into the work of Bob Cobbing - exploring his influence on the publishing world, his role in one of the most turbulent periods at the Poetry Society and the visual poem that outraged Margaret Thatcher. 

Revered and reviled - he has been a controversial figure at times. In this feature the writers Iain Sinclair, Peter Finch, Alan Brownjohn and Paula Claire, amongst others, reflect on the musicality of his work, how he challenged the conventional notion of poetry and the surprising controversy sound and visual poetry caused in the 20th Century.

Producer: Eleanor McDowall

A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in 2011.

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