National Poetry Day 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