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Seductive Places

Luke Wright's guests are Helen Mort, Kate Fox, Anita Sethi and Martin Rowson.

The Verb is lured this week into seductive places: poet Luke Wright presents a show full of light, cool water, shadows on stone, and the over-reliance on place-names (by lyricists). His guests are the poet Helen Mort (who shares poems of swimming and Lincolnshire from her collection 'The Illustrated Woman'), by the cartoonist and writer Martin Rowson who tries to persuade Luke that his passion for the Evelyn Waugh novel 'Brideshead Revisited' is misplaced - by Kate Fox (Verb regular and stand-up poet) who discovers seduction nirvana in an unlikely popular song, and by Anita Sethi (author of 'I Belong Here' ) who shares her love of Manchester's Oxford Road, and Manchester Museum where she is writer-in-residence.

Our 'Something New' poem (celebrating 100 years of the Â鶹Éç) is by Jean Sprackland, and our 'Something Old' poem is 'Sea Fever' by John Masefield.

Ian McMillan presents again next week - exploring the power and pleasure of last lines.

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Fri 10 Feb 2023 22:00

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  • Fri 10 Feb 2023 22:00

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