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Sir Andrew Motion talked to Hugh Chiverton about poems.
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Poet (and fluent Cantonese speaker) David McKirdy joins Phil Whelan to unveil his brand new collection, "Ancestral Worship". It's his ode to Hong Kong, which has been his home since he was four.
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Hear poet and author, Mida Azada talking about her newly released "Cataclysmal: Seventy Wasted Poems" - a very cool collection of poems with a Filipino flavour.
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Turkeys jus wanna play reggae
Turkeys jus wanna hip-hop
Can yu imagine a nice young turkey saying,
'I cannot wait for de chop'?
Hot, hip, playful and provocative, here are straight-talking poems from ground-breaking rap poet Benjamin Zephaniah.
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US Inaugural Poet, Richard Blanco joins Phil Whelan on Morning Brew with writer Xu Xi. His collection "City of a Hundred Fires" received the prestigious Agnes Starrett Poetry Prize, and his most recent book is nonfiction, "For All of Us, One Today", which describes his journey as the inaugural poet (for President Obama's inauguration)
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This is Luke Kennard’s fourth collection of poetry and departs from his previous work in its scope and outlook. The prose poems and dramatic monologues run deeper and, the verse more personal. It is unmistakably a Kennard book (the wolf appears here in his sixth outing), but there is also a striving to turn away from the self-referential games and literary in-jokes...
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Selected Poems is the first full selection of James Fenton's poems to be published, and represents the whole range of his work from light-verse to political and love poems to opera libretti. It includes early work from The Memory of War and Children in Exile as well as later work from Out of Danger, which won the Whitbread Poetry Prize in 1994. Also represented are...
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He is a performance poet, librettist, songwriter/musician and self-confessed former drug addict. His book Narcopolis has been shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize. In conversation with RTHK's Hugh Chiverton, the themes and characters in his tale of opium dens and heroin addiction in Mumbai will be explored. The event was be held at 1.30 pm-3.pm on...
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In Just Saying, improbable and even untenable speakers are briefly constituted—only to disappear. The result is part carnival, part nightmare. A television pundit’s rhetoric segues into an unusual succulent with writhing maroon tongues. When the world suddenly becomes legible, is that revelation or psychosis? In this book, the voice of the Lord and/or the voice...
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Luke Kennard is a poet and writer of fiction. His first collection of prose poems The Solex Brothers was published in 2005. His second collection The Harbour Beyond the Movie was shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best Collection, making him the youngest writer ever to be shortlisted. His most recent collection A Lost Expression was released in 2012 alongside an...
