What is poetic voice? Is it synonymous with style? Or something else? Perhaps the poet’s “take” on the world? Pele Cox and Rich Uridge seek answers from a range of greats including Emily Dickinson, Edna St Vincent Millay and Vernon Watkins who, with a drunken Dylan Thomas, tripped over a feather!
Poets
- Dylan Thomas
- Vernon Watkins
- Edna St Vincent Millay (First Fig)
- Emily Dickinson (Wild Nights – 269)
- Michael Donaghy (Not Knowing the Words)
- Alan Buckley (Ground)
- Richard Uridge (The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit)
Further reading
The programme was also referenced in this BBC Wales blog post.
Image credit: Tal Jones
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