POETICA
PRESENTED BY SARAH KANOWSKI AND DANIEL BROWNING,
SATURDAY AT 3.05 PM, REPEATED 9.05 PM WEDNESDAY.
Program details:
May
5th Sinning Across Spain – Ailsa Piper takes us on a poetic pilgrimage from Granada to Galicia.
12th The Abbotsford Mysteries – Patricia Sykes’s collection of poems about life in the Abbotsford Convent.
(No Saturday broadcasts for the rest of May due to Sydney Writers’ Festival and TEDX specials.)
23rd Catullus – Josephine Balmer’s lively translations of Roman poet Catullus, read by Robert Menzies.
30th Monologue of a Dog – selected poems of the late, great, Wislawa Szymborska.
June SYLLABUS SEASON
2nd Gwen Harwood – key poems by one of Australia’s best-loved poets.
9th Les Murray Live – Les Murray recorded in conversation with Mike Ladd at Adelaide Writers’ Week.
16th Judith Wright – readings and interviews about this major figure of Australian poetry.
23rd Kenneth Slessor – a feature on a writer who was both a traditionalist and, in his famous poem “Five Bells”, a pioneer of Australian modernism.
30th Lawrence Ferlinghetti – a new interview with the poet, activist, essayist and painter.
July
7th The Land’s Meaning – a feature on the poetry of Randolph Stow.
14th Who Do You Think You Are? – a meeting with Scottish poet, Kathleen Jamie.
21st Tom Paulin – an interview and reading with this controversial UK poet.
28th Bushfire – an anthology of Australian poetry about bushfires.
For further details please contact the producers of Poetica:
Mike Ladd (08) 8343 4928 Krystyna Kubiak (08) 8343 4271
Or visit our website at www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/poetica/
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