Join us for a recording of The Verb, 成人快手 Radio 4鈥檚 poetry celebration and 鈥榣anguage lock-in鈥�, hosted by its kindly pub-landlord Ian McMillan. In this special festival edition Ian has invited a host of award-winning poets, writers and performers to join him on stage for a spoken word party. His guests include the actor and writer, Miriam Margolyes 鈥� who understands how a poem should sound in the air, the novelist Kevin Barry - his latest novel delights in the language of ballads - by the poet Owen Sheers who will unlock the secrets of the truly great poetic line, and by the musician and songwriter Gwenno; she鈥檒l perform her own work and let us into one of her influences - the poet, and radical artist Edrica Huws.
Join us for a recording of The Verb, 成人快手 Radio 4鈥檚 poetry celebration and 鈥榣anguage lock-in鈥�, hosted by its kindly pub-landlord Ian McMillan. In this special festival edition Ian has invited a host of award-winning poets, writers and performers to join him on stage for a spoken word party. His guests include the actor and writer, Miriam Margolyes 鈥� who understands how a poem should sound in the air, the novelist Kevin Barry - his latest novel delights in the language of ballads - by the poet Owen Sheers who will unlock the secrets of the truly great poetic line, and by the musician and songwriter Gwenno; she鈥檒l perform her own work and let us into one of her influences - the poet, and radical artist Edrica Huws.