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Book of the Week Deaths of the Poets Episodes

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  1. Episode 5

    5/5 Michael Symmons Roberts and Paul Farley explore the life, and death, of poet WH Auden.

  2. The Burning of Some Idols

    4/5 The lives - and reclusive deaths - of Emily Dickinson and Rosemary Tonks.

  3. Poet Interrupted

    3/5 The authors explore the lives - and deaths - of Stevie Smith and Louis MacNeice.

  4. The Names of the Bridges

    2/5 The authors explore the lives - and suicides - of John Berryman and Sylvia Plath.

  5. A Portable Shrine

    1/5 Poets Michael Symmons Roberts and Paul Farley ask 'What is the true cost of poetry?'.