The Verb

Supporting Content

• 35 Years of Spoken Word

  A season of Poetry and Performance from Hull.

  

• Ten brand new poems by contemporary poets

  Poetry commissioned specially for Radio 3's Three Score and Ten series.

  

• BBC Arts

  Explore the BBC Arts website and discover the best of British art and culture.

  

• The Dylan Thomas Collection

  Listen to programmes, poetry readings and commentary from Radio 3's Dylan Thomas Day.

  

• Tweet-off on the Tyne

  Miranda Keeling and Ian tweet from opposite sides of the Tyne in Gateshead.

  

• The Verb Manifesto

  Six new rules for writing

  Duration: 1:07

• Jean Binta Breeze

  Jean Binta Breeze, reading her work on The Verb in 2016

  Duration: 5:57

• Malaika Kegode on her collaboration with Jakabol

  Baku is available as part of the Soundscape Poetry Project

  Duration: 2:22

• The Fisherman's Elegy

  One of three new shorts commissioned with BBC Writersroom themed 'Experiments in Living'.

  Duration: 12:40
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• The Verb at Contains Strong Language 2018

• The Verb at Latitude 2018

• The Verb at Latitude 2018

• The Verb at Free Thinking 'The Many'
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• The Verb Manifesto

  Ian McMilllan has always loved the idea of  ‘the manifesto’, even when he was a little boy and they featured things like ‘No adults allowed in the den’ and ‘We demand endless crisps!’.

  Now he’s launching The Verb’s very own ‘Writing Manifesto’ – a list of six rules for writing inspired by a year of interviews with guests like Margaret Atwood, Simon Armitage, Gabriel Byrne, Claudia Rankine, Floella Benjamin, Greg James and Yanis Varoufakis, and with poets and writers at the very start of their careers.

   

  Discover our six new rules in this specially commissioned animation:

  https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p09w8qk5