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Greta Stoddart looking directly at the camera, smiling. She has brown hair with a grey streak and she's wearing a black shirt with small blue and red flowers on.

Castaway Companions

Castaway poet Greta Stoddart choses poems by Elizabeth Bishop, Raymond Carver and Czeslaw Milosz for her desert island stay

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The word 'iamb' in white a light grey circle on a dark grey background. Underneath it says 'poetry seen and heard' in small white lower-case text.

Inside iamb

The Friday Poem talks to Mark Antony Owen, founder and editor of poet directory and quarterly journal iamb

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Johnathon Davidson reading into a microphone. He is wearing a grey suit jacket and a blue shirt and he has short grey hair

Progress was made

Poet and literature activist Jonathan Davidson considers the concept of 'progress' in poetry

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A photograph of Dannie Abse in a comfortable-looking study or sitting room.He is wearing a tweed jacket and a denim shirt, his hair is white and he is laughing. Photo credit Amit Lennon.

Ticking its own wild time

Tony Curtis on 'In the Theatre' by Dannie Abse, a poem which changed his life as a writer

Photo credit and copyright Amit Lennon

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Photo of Suzannah Evans, she has shoulder length brown hair, glasses and a light blue shirt with pictures of birds on.

Castaway Companions

Castaway Poet Suzannah Evans chooses poems by Ian McMillan, Marie Howe and Tony Hoagland to take to a desert island

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A man and a woman in period costume from around the 1600s by the look of the wig. They are standing either side of a chemists wooden counter and red smoke billows in the air

Collaboration and Transformation II

Clare Best on collaborating with composers and musicians, translators and book designers

Photo credit: Guildhall School of Music & Drama

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a black and white portrait of Clare, she is turned from the camera, scar tissue is visible were her breasts were

Collaboration and Transformation I

Clare Best on her experiences of collaborative artistic work

Photo by Laura Stevens

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A tiny man defending himself from a large and dangerous looking cat! Its a poster image from the film " The Incredible Shrinking Man"

After the first phase, after the great fall

In the first of a new series of close readings, Hilary Menos unpacks the poem ‘Incredible’ by Simon Armitage

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Some mangoes in a basket, and one loose on some large yellowish rocks

The grief I cast is for me

Matthew Paul celebrates the life and poetry of Ted Walker

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Tom is dressed in, I dunno, cellophane maybe? the background is broadly pink and they have a hat that resembles a chicken carcasse

Sky blue pink

Bruno Cooke on the many faces of artist, poet and social worker Tom Stockley

Photo by Will Thomas

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A paper cut out of Taras Shevchenko's house. the roof is red and there is a dormer window in the roof , it looks traditional, there is a more modern building in the background and grass in the foreground

Testament

Christopher James has made a paper cut-up of the Kyiv home of Ukrainian poet, Taras Shevchenko

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Picture of Anne she has long blond hair and is smiling, there is a blurred painting in the background

Castaway Companions

Castaway poet Anne Rouse chooses poems by H.D. and Yeats, and Helen Waddell's translation of 'Die Christi Veritas', to take to a desert island

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