Send us a text Surprise! We're back again and starting Season Six with a distinctive Black Country jewel from our trove of interviews. Liz Berry delighted us all in April 2023 when she spoke with Robin about her (then) new collection, The Home Child (Vintage). Hear her read from that and also from her Forward Prize-winning Black Country (2014, Chatto & Windus). Well worth hearing again. Stay tuned... There's more to come from Planet Poetry. Support the show Planet Poetry is a labour of lo...
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Send us a text Surprise! We're back again and starting Season Six with a distinctive Black Country jewel from our trove of interviews. Liz Berry delighted us all in April 2023 when she spoke with Robin about her (then) new collection, The Home Child (Vintage). Hear her read from that and also from her Forward Prize-winning Black Country (2014, Chatto & Windus). Well worth hearing again. Stay tuned... There's more to come from Planet Poetry. Support the show Planet Poetry is a labour of lo...
Send us a textSilent faces and displaced lives. Seni Seneviratne gives voice to overshadowed Black children, exotic pages and servants in the portraits of nobility and the mercantile class in 18th Century paintings. Other of her poised and beautiful poems, from The Go-Away Bird from Peepal Tree Press, are infused with bird imagery, and the migrations of travellers going deeper into themselves. Meanwhile Robin jumps into the world of online poetry magazines, looking at the long-running I...
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Send us a text Surprise! We're back again and starting Season Six with a distinctive Black Country jewel from our trove of interviews. Liz Berry delighted us all in April 2023 when she spoke with Robin about her (then) new collection, The Home Child (Vintage). Hear her read from that and also from her Forward Prize-winning Black Country (2014, Chatto & Windus). Well worth hearing again. Stay tuned... There's more to come from Planet Poetry. Support the show Planet Poetry is a labour of lo...