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Epic | Exploration - with Shane McCrae

November 17, 2022 • Shane McCrae, Robin Houghton & Peter Kenny • Season 3 • Episode 3

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Here we go again, blazing through the vast firmaments... We go all starry and stripy this week as we meet Shane McCrae - one of the US's most celebrated new poets - to be awed by the Miltonic vastness of an imagination that electrifies his collections Cain Named The Animal and Sometimes I Never Suffered.

Meanwhile Robin continues the epic theme in St Lucia, by embarking on Omeros by Derek Walcott, and Peter, enervated after a house move is re-enthused about poetry as a whole thanks to On Poetry: Reading, Writing & Working with Poems by Jackie Wills.

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