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The Verb: New Rules for Writing  - Manifesto Launch

New Rules for Writing  - Manifesto Launch

BBC Radio 4 - The Verb, New Rules for Writing  - Manifesto Launch

Ian McMillan reveals the ideas in our new manifesto with guests including Damon Albarn.

Ian McMillan reveals the ideas in our new manifesto, with guests including Damon Albarn, Don Paterson and Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, and a new commission from Gerry Diver.

We reveal our new 'Rules for Writing' - six ideas to inspire, excite, and to break! 


The musician and songwriter Damon Albarn -  and award-winning poets Don Paterson and Elizabeth-Jane Burnett -  all join Ian McMillan to illustrate these provocations,  which are designed to help launch a new era of poetry, story-writing and performance. The composer and producer Gerry Diver has also contributed a piece of sound art inspired by the cadences of the human voice called 'You May be Mistaken'.


Across our 'Experiments in Living' season, The Verb asked over a hundred guests ( including Margaret Atwood, Yanis Varoufakis, Claudia Rankine and Simon Armitage ) for their ideas about how we might write most powerfully, and creatively in these times.  Certain themes surfaced again and again, including time, uncertainty, the non-human world, and listening.  Find out how they made their way into our manifesto, and inspired our six new rules.

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