大象传媒

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the 大象传媒's poetry archive and selects A Psalm for the Scaffolder with Geoffrey Faber prize-winning poet Kim Moore as she invites us into her life as a a writer. She focuses on her working class background and long held desire to follow her scaffolder-dad to work and become poet in residence among the scaffolders.

She shares her love of music and years spent working as a trumpet teacher, and how her tender, atmospheric poetry grapples with the transformations that affect both body and mind during a violent relationship.

This picture of Kim's life and the poetry it informs takes shape alongside a portrait painted by Claire Eastgate as part of her project, Painting the Poets, giving us a unique opportunity to listen in on the intimacies of the painter-sitter relationship.

A Just Radio production for 大象传媒 Radio 4

First broadcast on 大象传媒 Radio 4 in 2019.