Antonio Pappano conducts Mozart's great comic opera The Marriage of Figaro. 
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Peter Redgrove
Considered on the most important poets of the late twentieth century, Redgrove's poems celebrate the natural world and the human condition and are known for their visual imagination. As a new edition of his collected poems is published, his biographer and editor Neil Roberts and the novelist Gerard Woodward discuss his life and work.
Peter Redgrove's Collected Poems; and A Lucid Dreamer, The Life of Peter Redgrove by Neil Roberts are both out now from Jonathan Cape. -
Jane Urquhart
One of Canada's leading authors, the multi-award-winning Urquhart has won praise for the way she describes the human need to remember and memorialise those who have departed in novels like the Stone Carvers and The Underpainter, which won Canada's most prestigious literary prize, The Governor General's Award. This week she reads a new short story, A Pair of Dark Coats, written specially for The Verb.
Sanctuary Line by Jane Urquhart is out now from MacLehose Press. -
Luke Wright
Verb favourite Luke Wright made his name with poetry collective Aisle 16 and his shows combine inspiration and perspiration in equal measure. This week he presents an ambitious new work in progress, Revolt, which gets to grips with this summer's riots using Octava Rima, a verse form much used by Byron, and alliterative verse.
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The Complete Works?
As a new -very very complete - edition of Philip Larkin's verse is published, including work which went unpublished in the poet's lifetime, David Harsent and David Morley discuss whether it is right to publish work a poet may not have wanted to see the light of day.
Philip Larkin The Complete Poems by Archie Burnett is available from Faber.
Broadcasts
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BBC Radio 3Fri 27 Jan 2012 22:00 BBC Radio 3
