Poetry Extra: A Few Don'ts

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A Few Don'ts

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Poet Daljit Nagra selects the best programmes from the BBC's poetry archive.

Daljit Poet selects A Few Don'ts featuring the poetry of Ezra Pound and presented by Lavinia Greenlaw.  From 2012.

Daljit Nagra visits the BBC's poetry archives and selects A Few Don'ts featuring the poetry of Ezra Pound.   

The poet Lavinia Greenlaw reappraises Ezra Pound's manifesto, A Few Don'ts by an Imagiste. 

A century on, what can his lively don'ts do for today's poets? His passion to make poetry as modern as, say, Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring (first performed in the same year, 1913) drives him to pronounce on adjectives, ornament, metronomes and abstraction and in praise of the Image.  

With fellow poets Frances Leviston, Andrea Brady and Richard Price, and with the visual artist Cornelia Parker, psychologist Sophie Scott and composer John Woolrich, Lavinia explores the dos and don'ts of good poetry and the ins and outs of writing manifestos about it.  


Producer:   Frances Byrnes
A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in 2012.

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