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The Echo Chamber - The Body

4 Extra Debut. Poet-in-Residence Daljit Nagra introduces The Echo Chamber - about the shapes of poems. Presented by Paul Farley. From February 2013.

ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4's Poet in Residence, Daljit Nagra revisits the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'s radio poetry with an edition of 'The Echo Chamber'.

Paul Farley looks at the body in question - the shapes of poems and the people in them. How does a poet decide on the form of their poem? What do different poetic forms do to the subject of a poem? The programme travels the country and anatomises its poetic body. With found poems and field-notes, a diary of failure and success, the sound of the world being taken down in rhyme, and a look into a hive of dead bees in midwinter.

With poems from Sean Borodale, Don Paterson and Alice Oswald.

Producer: Tim Dee

First broadcast on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 in 2013.

30 minutes

Last on

Mon 22 May 2017 05:00

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