ON FORM - THE SONNET
Episode 1 of 3
Aviva Dautch and Andrew McMillan explore the recent resurgence in formal poetry. This week: the history of the sonnet and how to write a modern one.
The reader is Juliet Stevenson.
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ON FORM - THE GHAZAL
Episode 2 of 3
Aviva Dautch and Andrew McMillan explore the recent resurgence in formal poetry. This week: the history of the ghazal and how to write a modern one.
The reader is Juliet Stevenson.
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ON FORM - THE VILLANELLE
Episode 3 of 3
Aviva Dautch and Andrew McMillan explore the recent resurgence in formal poetry. This week: the history of the villanelle and how to write a modern one.
The reader is Juliet Stevenson.
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we sigh for houses
Aviva Dautch shares what it means to be the child of a hoarder and how her poetry seeks to make order and beauty from the chaos in which she grew up.
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On What Happened
Dr Oline and Aviva Dautch discuss memoir, politics, tone, procatalepsis, Norman Mailer, selfhood, history, cultural legacy, the performance of authenticity and the importance of representation, by way of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s memoir, 'What Happened'.
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Duncan Payne on Being in the Belly of the Whale
Thirteen years ago, former teacher and lawyer Duncan Payne had a heart attack. And Then Suddenly… discusses the strange responses to emergencies, how things change forever and the fears that emerge and vanish after being in the belly of the whale. Featuring the poem Jonah’s Prayer by Aviva Dautch.
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Migraines, 'Suffragettes in trousers', Aviva Dautch
Aviva Dautch reads her poetry on Woman's Hour, reflecting on love, loss and her late mother.