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Seamus Heaney

Ian McMillan and Forward Prize winning poet Daljit Nagra discuss how to write the perfect opening to a poem, and the winner of The Verb's short story competition is also announced.

Ian McMillan presents the weekly cabaret of language, which features Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney reading from his new translations of the work of 15th-century Scottish poet Robert Henryson.

With celebrated author of The Yacoubian Building, dentist-turned-novelist Alaa Al-Aswany, assessing contemporary Egyptian literature, and music from self-styled 'diseuse' George Pringle.

Plus the results of The Verb's short story competition, as Ian and fellow judge Rob Cowan announce the winner.

45 minutes

Last on

Fri 29 May 2009 21:15

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  • Fri 29 May 2009 21:15

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