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David Harsent

Pippa Haywood

Mair Bosworth

Poem Stories: Episode 1: Hidden by David Harsent

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Episode 1: Hidden by David Harsent

Hidden by David Harsent

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An original short story by poet David Harsent, springing from his poem A Dream Book.

An original short story by poet David Harsent, springing from his work A Dream Book. Read by Pippa Haywood.

An original short story by the poet David Harsent. Read by Pippa Haywood.

A new series in which poets adapt their own poems into short stories. 'Hidden' springs from David Harsent's poem sequence 'A Dream Book', from his collection 'Fire Songs', which won the 2014 TS Eliot Prize for Best Poetry Collection. 

David Harsent has published twelve volumes of poetry, most recently Salt (2017), Fire Songs (2014) and Night (2011), which won the Griffin International Poetry Prize, all from Faber & Faber. He is Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Roehampton and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

Written by David Harsent
Read by Pippa Haywood
Produced by Mair Bosworth

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