Poetry Extra: Thom Gunn

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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

Thom Gunn

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Poetry Extra, Thom Gunn

Daljit Nagra selects another highlight from the BBC's poetry archive.

Daljit Nagra chooses Poet of the Month: Thom Gunn and Three Score and Ten featuring readings by the Anglo American poet. From 1989 and 2016.

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and selects Poet of the Month: Thom Gunn and Three Score and Ten featuring readings by the Anglo American poet.   

* Poet of the Month: THOM GUNN 

Thorn Gunn talks to Clive Wilmer about his poetry and the work of the American poets Walt Whitman and August Kleinzahler.

Producer: Fiona McLean

First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 i1989

* Three Score & Ten: THOM GUNN  

An archive recording from 1993 by poet Thom Gunn, who reads from his anthology The Man with Night Sweats, about the untimely death of his mother.

Presented by Ian McMillan.  

Producer: Sharon Sephton

First broadcast on BBC Radio 3 in 2016.

*   Plus Daljit reads from his Poetry Extra Book of the Month:  Come Here to This Gate, the fourth collection by Rory Waterman.

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