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Now displaying: September, 2017

 

Welcome to the Mr B's Podcast: the audio-home of Mr B's Emporium of Reading Delights in Bath. Read more about our different episodes, and the bookshop where they are all made here 

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Sep 25, 2017

September 28th is National Poetry Day 2017. Listen to Jess and Lucinda dive into poetry which explores this year’s theme, Freedom, from the freedom of a lunch hour in Japan, to that of using two languages within one poem. We also hear from poets Marchant Barron, Beth Calverley and Rachel McCrum, whose work offer widely different takes on what it means to seek freedom. If you’ve been meaning to get back to reading poetry, this is the episode for you.

With contributions from Marchant Barron, Beth Calverley and Rachel McCrum

Hosted by Jessica Johannesson, with music by The Bookshop Band

 

Poems and collections mentioned in this episode: 

‘A Prison Evening’ by Faiz Ahmed Faiz from Being Alive ed. Neil Astley 

'Wild Geese' by Mary Oliver, from New and Selected Poems 

'Tanglefoot' and 'Hear This', both by Marchant Barron

'A Lesson in Drawing' by Nazir Kabani 

'The Tiger who came to Tea' by Beth Calverley

Ode to Bob by Helen Mort, from No Map Could Show Them 

‘The Marunouchi Building’ by Nakahara Chúya from The Penguin Book of Japanese Verse transl. by Geoffrey Bownas and Anthony Thwaite

The Tijuana Book of the Dead by Luis Alberto Urrea 

Vaginaland by Jen Campbell

'Last of the Late Great Gorilla-Suit Actors' by Patricia Lockwood from Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals

'My Underwear was Made of Iron' by Rachel McCrum, from The First Blast to Awaken Women Degenerate

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