Proms Plus Literary - Proms Poetry Competition

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4.2 • 599 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2013

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Ian McMillan, Judith Palmer and Don Paterson introduce the winning entries in this year's Proms Poetry Competition - and welcome some of the winners on stage to read their poems. The reader is Samantha Bond. Recorded in front of an audience at this year's Proms Plus events at the Royal College of Music. In Association with the Poetry Society.

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