大象传媒

The writer Laura Barton reflects on how we articulate emotion and how feeling finds its way into words.

Starting from Robert Frost's assertion that "a poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness" and becomes something in which "the emotion finds the thought, and the thought finds the words", Laura draws on some of her favourite writers, including Gerard Manley Hopkins, Carol Ann Duffy and Vladimir Nabokov, as well as music from Van Morrison, Volcano Choir and cellist Oliver Coates.

Produced by Alan Hall
A Falling Tree production for 大象传媒 Radio Four.