New to 4 Extra. Poetry Extra, the series in which poet Daljit Nagra chooses highlights from 90 years of the BBC’s poetry archive. This week Daljit chooses a programme featuring dialects. Representing ...

Any "literary" poet who chooses to write in dialect must have what we would call today "a political agenda". William Barnes (1801-1886), poet and philologist, certainly had. His efforts to formalise ...

The most famous poet in American history sold a million copies of his book, back in the days when a million was a lot. He had his own weekly radio show and even, for a while, his own television show.

Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and selects Tongue and Talk: The Dialect Poets - East Lincolnshire exploring poetry from the county. Alan Mumby, Chairman of Far Welter’d, the East ...

Hannah Furness is Royal Editor for the Telegraph. She has been writing about the Royal family for a decade: interviewing, analysing, and reporting on the monarchy's biggest moments. Hannah Furness is ...

In spring 2015 I was in the market for a new literary research project when I heard a Radio 4 “In Our Time” broadcast about the Lancashire Cotton Famine of 1861-65. One of the panellists referred to ...

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Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and chooses Tongue and Talk - The Dialect Poets with Kirsty McKay on dialect poetry in Northumberland. Children's author Kirsty Mckay offers a ...