The Verb, words and performance with poet Ian McMillan : language at its most creative interviews, discussions, performance, new writing, audio-cartoons, music and poetry. Every Friday at 22.00. The Verb is a home for new writers and new writing, commissioning a new work every week. The Verb – Poetry , novels, short stories, plays, screen-plays, memoirs, essays, history, song, story-telling .Exploring different worlds of language, dialects, rarities and curiosities and how spoken and written language interact.
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Fri, 17 May 13
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This week Ian’s guests are Holly Pester, Don Paterson, Melvin Burgess and Joel Stickley Holly Pester is a sound poet – she performs a poem inspired by her love of Buddy Holly’s Peggy Sue. Don Paterson is a poet, teacher, poetry editor and musician. He’s here to launch the proms poetry competition, which he will be judging this year alongside Ian McMillan. Melvin Burgess writes books for young people on a wide variety of topics. He returns to the theme of drugs with his latest book, The Hit (Chicken House). The poet Joel Stickley is the author of ‘How to Write Badly Well’. He’s here to parody bad poetry book titles, with his obituary of an imaginary poet called Kevin Southwell,
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