This episode focuses on the choices poets make about form. There is an interview with Mimi Khalvati, poet, founder of The Poets School and poetic mentor, where she talks about her career in poetry and her own ideas about form. In an extract from a reading, Claire Cox, prize-winning poet and editor of ignitionpress reads from her work and comments on form. In addition, a range of poets writing in a range of different forms each reads a poem and comments on its form. There is also a cameo appearance by Stephen Paul Wren talking about chemical structures and poetic form.
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