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Poetry & Performance. BBC Radio 4’s Cabaret of the word. Sunday at 17.10 @BBCSounds https://t.co/exgmCrc744
MediaCity, Salford
Joined July 2009
In our Something New series we have commisioned new poems to mark the BBC centenary. We'll be sharing them here.
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What does a special ceremony for a glacier sound like? @andrimagnason and @manjushreethapa bring questions, the cosmos and the imagination - they're @imcmillan 's guests on @r4theverb , and on @bbcsounds
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Do you wear plimsolls, daps or trainers? What would the witches in Macbeth say now? The sounds of rain and birds at a ritual for the 'Mother of the Sea'. Harriet Walter, Gillian Allnutt @jasonsinghthing join @imcmillan now for @r4theverb
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On @r4therverb at 17.10 @imcmillan finds inspiration in the odd things we find in books (bacon anyone?) and in houses, as well as the language of witches and 'phrasal verbs'. With @Aebinney Fiona Benson @boohewerdine , @yvonnelyonmusic and @StageDoorJohnny
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Live footage of @imcmillan on our hedgey @R4TheVerb ! Joined by:. @ABRACKENBURY with a haunted hedge. @samleesong with bushes & briars . Michael Symmons Roberts on a famous blackbird. @testamentonline with hedge poetry . And writer/hedgelayer Paul Lamb🌱. @ 17.10 @bbcradio4
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We're back ! Listen now to @PadraigMacaoidh @robinrimbaud Tishani Doshi and Lorna Goodison. @imcmillan brings you confusing album titles, love poetry with strong lines, Burns as a poet for times of change - as well as poetic infernos. On @bbcradio4
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RT @Rokewood: I remain a ‘Friday night’ listener to @R4TheVerb @BBCRadio4. & have missed the last couple. Therefore sooo good to catch up w….
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What poetry is there in the disappearance of bank branches and hard cash? Or a litter bin seen from a train window? Join @IMcMillan @LisaKnappMusic @gerrydiver @georgeszirtes @ceciliaknapp @BetaRish for @r4theverb @BBCRadio4 at 17.10 and find out.
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RT @EllaFrears: Loved being on @BBCRadio4’s The Verb yesterday 💫 listen again on BBC Sounds @IMcMillan.
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RT @IMcMillan: Reeta Chakrabarti, Fred D'Aguiar, Edward Wilson-Lee and Ella Frears. See you all later for an edition of @R4TheVerb that….
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Also on @r4theverb this week - @ellafrears on rented and borrowed rooms, @EdwardWilsonLee with mysterious, magical language, and Fred D'Aguiar with a remarkable new poem, bearing witness to the L.A. fires.
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Here's a clue to the John Keats poem celebrated by.@reetacbbc in this week's @R4TheVerb - on @bbcsounds now !.
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RT @Rokewood: Smashing episode of @BBCRadio4 @R4TheVerb. A real treasure-trove of language & invention. & yes! I remember #TheChanges from….
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Why does @imcmillan want to flee his BBC studio this week in @r4theverb ? .It has something to do with a television series celebrating its 50th anniversary. Luckily guests @jtaylortrash @lukewrightpoet @adjsoseph and @robdrummond are too interesting for him to ignore !
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Actual footage of @r4theverb studio this week. Join.@imcmillan and the wide-eyed balloon for balloon poems, party poems, visions of whales and the gift of deep calm. With @tobylitt @rrobinson72 @hannahsilva.and @CalebFemi_ 1710 on @bbcradio4
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RT @IMcMillan: Trying to look serious with balloons on @R4TheVerb with @CalebFemi_ @tobylitt @HannahSilvaUK
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The poetry of cats, dogs, mice and pooh bears- now on @bbcsounds.
Daljit Nagra, Karen McCarthy Woolf, Brian Bilston and Stagedoor Johnny. Source: BBC. See you all later for a new series of @R4TheVerb!
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On @r4theverb very shortly, @StageDoorJohnny offers a surprising origin story for English words - in which he plays all the characters.
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