Poetry Extra: A Psalm for the Scaffolder

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Poetry Extra

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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

A Psalm for the Scaffolder

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Poetry Extra, A Psalm for the Scaffolder

Daljit Nagra hunts out interesting programmes from the BBC's poetry archive.

Daljit Nagra selects A Psalm for the Scaffolder with prize-winning poet Kim Moore exploring her tender, atmospheric poetry.  From 2019.

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and selects A Psalm for the Scaffolder with Geoffrey Faber prize-winning poet Kim Moore as she invites us into her life as a a writer.  She focuses on her working class background and long held desire to follow her scaffolder-dad to work and become poet in residence among the scaffolders.

She shares her love of music and years spent working as a trumpet teacher, and how her tender, atmospheric poetry grapples with the transformations that affect both body and mind during a violent relationship.

This picture of Kim's life and the poetry it informs takes shape alongside a portrait painted by Claire Eastgate as part of her project, Painting the Poets, giving us a unique opportunity to listen in on the intimacies of the painter-sitter relationship.

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First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2019.

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