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Every Little Touch

Writer Noo Saro-Wiwa gives her personal perspective on poetry鈥檚 relationship with touch, as part of Radio 4's Touch Test week.

Whether it鈥檚 the missing hug of a parent, the affirmation of a handshake, or the grabbing of a handrail on a bus, the boundaries of our sense of touch have changed in recent months.

In this programme, as part of Radio 4鈥檚 Touch Test week, the writer Noo Saro-Wiwa gives her personal perspective on poetry鈥檚 relationship with touch, and speaks to modern poets about what it means to them now.

With extracts from Thom Gunn, Anne Carson, Alfred Tennyson, Imtiaz Dharker and Sarah Jackson鈥檚 book Tactile poetics and music by Jonsi.

The readers are Simon Russell Beale and Sheila Ruskin.

Producer: Emily Williams
Sound Design by Jess Hatton-Brown

A Whistledown production for 大象传媒 Radio 4

28 minutes

Last on

Sat 17 Oct 2020 23:30

Broadcasts

  • Sun 11 Oct 2020 16:30
  • Sat 17 Oct 2020 23:30