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Poetry at GCSE may fall victim to the pandemic. https://bbc.in/33zpcWJ

Here's why you shouldn't give up on poetry

Poetry will become an optional subject area in GCSE English literature exams next year.

https://bbc.in/33zpcWJ

There's no threat to poetry on @BBCSounds, of course. Plenty to console you. @DaljitNagra4's Poetry Extra, on 4 Extra, continues to surface extraordinary work from the BBC archive. This collection of poems for Summer is beautiful https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000kwzx

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BBC Radio 4 Extra - Poetry Extra, Four Seasons - An Anthology of Summer Poems

Daljit Nagra selects the very best programmes from the BBC's poetry back catalogue.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000kwzx

Helen Mort's choice of poems for Poetry Please - from Wordsworth, Norman MacCaig and Karen McCarthy Woolf among others - is a real delight https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000kmrs

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Poetry Please - Helen Mort - BBC Sounds

We join Helen Mort in Sheffield as she chooses her favourite poems.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000kmrs

@BetaRish's documentary about the use of poetry in advertising is fascinating and surprising https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000kfvf

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Archive on 4 - Poetry For Sale? - BBC Sounds

Poet and copywriter Rishi Dastidar on the relationship between poetry and advertising.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000kfvf

Another escellent episode of Archive on 4, this one about the radical poetry of the 1960s https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b0366wnh

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Archive on 4 - Dial-a-Poem - BBC Sounds

Poet Brian Patten explores the 1960s counter-culture through its radically risqué poetry.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b0366wnh

The genius of Bob Cobbing https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000lgx8

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Poetry Extra - Make Perhaps This Out Sense Of Can You - BBC Sounds

Daljit Nagra selects the very best programmes from the BBC's poetry archives.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000lgx8

What do poetry editors actually do? https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000bvx2

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The Poetry Editor - BBC Sounds

The poet TS Eliot was a famous poetry editor, too. Hannah Sullivan explores this role

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000bvx2

Over on @BBCRadio3, @IMcMillan's The Verb is about as close as you'll get to the beating heart of poetry on air. There are currently over 90 episodes for you to download and enjoy on @BBCSounds. This one's phenomenal https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000jwyy

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BBC Radio 3 - The Verb, Writers of the Caribbean diaspora

Roger Robinson, Malika Booker, Jacob Sam-La Rose and Ingrid Persaud.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000jwyy

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