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The Verb
By BBC Radio 4
Ian McMillan hosts Radio 4's cabaret of the word, featuring the best poetry, new writing and performance.
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The Adverb at Latitude
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The Adverb at Hay
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The Adverb at Outspoken
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The Adverb in Australia
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22/09/2024
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29/09/2024
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The Verb in Australia
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Margaret Atwood and Alice Oswald
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Paul Farley, Malika Booker, Rob Drummond, Kate Fox
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Wendy Cope, Theresa Lola , Susie Dent, Ira Lightman
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Isy Suttie, Pascale Petit, Deryn Rees Jones, Alan Connor
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A special recording of The AdVerb at The Hackney Empire
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The Morecambe Poetry Festival
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Richard Dawkins, Gwyneth Lewis, Kate Fox, Eartoon
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TS Eliot Prize Readings - highlights of a year in poetry
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Joelle Taylor, Anthony Joseph, Luke Wright, Accents
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Reeta Chakrabarti, Fred D'Aguiar, Ella Frears, Edward Wilson-Lee
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Don Paterson, Zena Edwards, John McAuliffe on Michael Longley
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George Szirtes, Cecilia Knapp, Lisa Knapp, Gerry Diver, Rishi Dastidar
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Rebecca Watts, Brian Bilston, Cristina Rivera Garza, Deryn Rees-Jones
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Peter Mackay, Tishani Doshi, Scanner, Lorna Goodison
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Hedges and poetry
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Poetry and performance with Ian McMillan
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Boo Hewerdine, Fiona Benson, Alison Binney, Yvonne Lyon, Eartoon
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Harriet Walter, Jason Singh, Gillian Allnutt, Glacier Poetry
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Forrest Gander, Laurie Bolger, SJ Fowler, Rachel Segal Hamilton
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The Adverb from the Ledbury Poetry Festival
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The Adverb
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The Verb from Contains Strong Language in Bradford
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Maria Popova, Aditya Narayan, Kimberly Campanello, DM Black
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Poetry by Tony Harrison, US Poet Laureate Arthur Sze, Sinéad Morrissey, David Morley, and Daniel Sluman
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Shaun Usher, Katrina Naomi, Amani Saeed, Fran Edwards and Jennifer Jones
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Train Poetry with Don Paterson, Bella Hardy, Carmen Marcus, Patrick McGuinness
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Simon Armitage, Alistair McGowan, Joelle Taylor
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The Christmas Adverb
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T.S. Eliot Prize Poets
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Rilke's life-changing poems and Paul Farley, Kate Fox, Griot Gabriel
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The Love Verb
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Richard Dawson, Jacob Polley, Sarah Howe, Frank Cottrell Boyce on John Carey
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George Szirtes, Iryna Starovoyt, Zain Rishi, Katie Clarke
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Sibling relationships with Blake Morrison, Natalie Shapero, Tara Bergin, and the word 'literally'
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Michael Laskey, Michael Schmidt, Michelle Penn, Rachel Douglas-Jones
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Dark nights of the Soul, Brian Bilston, JH Prynne, Daljit Nagra, William Blake and Martha Sprackland
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The Verb at the Hay Festival
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Poetry - a bullet-proof vest for the soul
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Myths to nourish your life: poetry with Ian McMillan and Angie Hobbs, Rishi Dastidar, Bradley Taylor, Samantha Wynne-Rhydderch
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The Verb - a house of multipoet occupancy
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Poetry to keep you afloat
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Poems to help us brave the elements
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Poems that shake up autumn from Contains Strong Language
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Sign inIan McMillan hosts Radio 4's cabaret of the word, featuring the best poetry, new writing and performance.
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- BBC Radio 4
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- Language
- en
- Episodes
- 284
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