The Verb

Supporting Content

• The Verb: Something New – The Poems

  New poems commissioned by The Verb for the BBC centenary.

  

• 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.

  

• Something New: Menna Elfyn reads Horse Chestnut Tree in Uppsala 2022

  Horse Chestnut Tree in Uppsala 2022

  Duration: 1:59

• Something New: Jean Sprackland reads Listen with Mother

  Listen with Mother

  Duration: 1:11

• Something New: Don Paterson reads Kissing on the Radio

  Kissing on the Radio

  Duration: 2:06

• Adulting

  Short audio drama by Georgia Affonso commissioned in collaboration with BBC Writersroom

  Duration: 8:59
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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