Poems that shake up autumn from Contains Strong Language
Ian McMillan brings poems and poets that shake up autumn from the Contains Strong Language Festival
Ian McMillan brings you poems and poets to shake up autumn from the Contains Strong Language Festival.
Ian's guests, Alice Oswald, Paul Farley, Karen McCarthy Woolf and Liz Berry tread through the mellow fruit of John Keats' Ode to Autumn, but then turn their eyes and ears towards other surprising ways to write about this season of falling leaves, as well as exploring the art of poetry itself.
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