Seamus Heaney
Ian McMillan and Forward Prize winning poet Daljit Nagra discuss how to write the perfect opening to a poem, and the winner of The Verb's short story competition is also announced.
Ian McMillan presents the weekly cabaret of language, which features Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney reading from his new translations of the work of 15th-century Scottish poet Robert Henryson.
With celebrated author of The Yacoubian Building, dentist-turned-novelist Alaa Al-Aswany, assessing contemporary Egyptian literature, and music from self-styled 'diseuse' George Pringle.
Plus the results of The Verb's short story competition, as Ian and fellow judge Rob Cowan announce the winner.
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