An evening with Britain's best poets

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🗓️ 29 January 2015

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Love. Sorrow. Anger. Death. Laughter. God. Sex. Hell. Home. Only one profession can get to the heart of that lot – the poets. And not any old poets but amongst Britain's very best: Wendy Cope, Andrew Motion and Don Paterson – plus Clive James who's been here so long he almost counts as British. They came to the Intelligence Squared stage in April 2011 to read and talk about not just their own poems, but their favourite works by poets from the past. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:57.0	Good evening. The title for this evening is
1:01.4	Britain's best poets which refers naturally to two English
1:06.6	poets a Scott and a self-described Australian visitor but as a great Romanian sceptic once said, the writer's country is his or her language, in this case English in several of its tongues.
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