31/12/2009

Synopsis

With Jenni Murray.

Celebrating Woman's Hour's year in poetry, from the startlingly beautiful landscape of Shetland with the work of Jen Hadfield to a sleepwalk on the banks of the River Severn with Alice Oswald. As well as such lyrical adventures, Jenni finds out how poets have embraced a remarkable 12 months of opportunity for women. Carol Ann Duffy talks about being appointed to the Poet Laureateship, and the programme hears from poets who were nominated for the year's top prizes. They share their writing on the difficulty and humour of learning to accept the ageing body, and the intense beauty and terror of childbirth.