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Weekly opportunity for listeners to revisit the riches of the BBC radio poetry archive

A brand new poetry slot on Radio 4 Extra gives listeners a weekly opportunity to revisit the riches of the BBC radio poetry archive

Poetry Extra: Elizabeth Bishop & Marianne Moore

Elizabeth Bishop & Marianne Moore

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

Daljit Nagra selects The Essay - The Loves of Elizabeth Bishop and Dear Marianne. With Neel Mukherjee and Ian Sansom. From 2017.

Poet Daljit Nagra selects two editions of The Essay with Neel Mukherjee and Ian Sansom.

The Essay: The Love that Wrote Its Name - The Loves of Elizabeth Bishop 
Novelist Neel Mukherjee on the abiding reticence that characterises the work and the life of American poet Elizabeth Bishop, particularly in relation to her sexuality. Mukherjee explores the two great loves of Bishop's life: the Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares and American student Alice Methfessel, who was 32 years her junior. Originally part of Gay Britannia, a season of programming marking the 50th anniversary of The Sexual Offences Act 1967, which partially decriminalised homosexual acts that took place in private between two men over the age of 21.

Writer and reader - Neel Mukherjee

Producer - Simon Richardson.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in 2017 


The Essay: More Letters to Writers - Dear Marianne 

Continuing his imaginary correspondences with some of the world's great writers, Ian Sansom feels he must finally ask poet Marianne Moore about that cape and tricorn hat. 

Producer - Conor Garrett

First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in 2017.

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