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Ode to Bed

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Rachel Long talks to poets at night about the ways beds run through the poetic imagination

Rachel Long talks to poets at night about the ways beds run through the poetic imagination.

The poet Rachel Long talks to other writers, at night, about the ways beds run through the poetic imagination. From a space for dreaming and desire, to a stage for the erotic. A site of birth, sleep, illness and death.

Featuring Caroline Bird, Romalyn Ante and Kim Addonizio.

Produced by Eleanor McDowall
A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4

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