Authors Live National Poetry Day 2018

Deanna Rodger and Ellen Renton send best wished to missing poet Raymond Antrobus

Ellen and Deanna chat about what attracted them to poetry

Ellen and Deanna talk about the power of this popular performance art

Deanna Rodger introduces poems about grief and loss

Deanna Rodger reads her poem Terminals

This poem is inspired by Endymion written by John Keats

Ellen Renton performs a poem about home

Ellen performs her poem inspired by cinema and dealing with disability

Ellen performs her poem of conversation about touch and friendship

Deanna and Ellen each reveal the process that inspires their poetry

Our poets answer a range of questions put to them by Janice and the audience