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Series about the world of spoken word poetry and how it is gaining popularity in the UK.

Poets and performers explore the escalating popularity of spoken word poetry and see how it has become the breeding ground for a whole new generation of writers.

Power Lines: Series 3: Power Lines: Body

Power Lines: Body

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Writer Bridget Minamore talks to poets about the way our bodies affect our writing.

Writer Bridget Minamore explores how poets write about the human body with some of the most dynamic and diverse poets in the UK, in the places where they live and write.

Writer Bridget Minamore talks to poets about the way our bodies affect our writing. 

Bridget speaks to her former mentee and 2020 Poetry Slam winner Elliot Waloschek about his relationship with his body, and how it has changed his writing and performance during the process of transitioning. 

Poet and DJ Kayo Chingonyi explores how poets excavate the stories, themes and ideas held within the human body. 

Bridget follows the impact of infertility, birth and parenthood on the work of poet Sally Jenkinson on a sunny walk through the Forest of Dean. 

Daniel Sluman, poet and disability rights activist, shares how his poetry changed his view and relationship with his own body.
 
And photographer and poet Amaal Said, and Founder of Octavia Collective Rachel Long, reflect on how their perspectives on their black female bodies have changed over time.


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Power Lines: Series 3

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

The most dynamic poets in the UK bring their insightful poetry to Radio 4.

The most dynamic poets in the UK bring their inventive and insightful poetry and distinctive perspectives to Radio 4 from the places where they live and write.

The most dynamic poets in the UK bring their inventive and insightful poetry and distinctive perspectives to Radio 4 from the places where they live and write. Poets whose work is rooted in performance explore the link between poetry being written now and music, the body and the coast.

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