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The Verb: Breath

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BBC Radio 4 - The Verb, Breath

Ian McMillan and his guests take in the literary air.

Ian McMillan and his guests explore the life breath of poetry and story. With Stephen Watts, Emma Carroll, James Nestor and Daisy Lafarge.

This week on the Verb we're taking in the air, and letting it out again as we explore how breath shapes and moulds the poetic line and stanza, how it can breathe life into a story and how breathing itself can be a kind of narrative. Ian McMillan is joined by the poet Stephen Watts whose poems pulse and flow with the rhythm of breath, novelist Emma Carroll whose book The Tale of Truthwater Lake breathes life into the future and revives the past, James Nestor a journalist and free diver who teaches us how to survive with and without breathing and poet Daisy Lafarge whose collection Life Without Air was shortlisted for the TS Eliot prize.

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