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Volume 3
Episode 3 of 4
Henry Normal opens volume three with poems about politics, class and trains. With Lemn Sissay and Kevin Fegan. From June 1994.
Henry Normal opens volume three of his Encyclopaedia Poetica, celebrating the rich tradition of the poet as a revolutionary, in a cardigan.
His poems cover politics, class, bouncy castles, and the buses, trams and trains of Manchester.
From the Contact Theatre, Manchester.
With poets:
Belinda Burton
John Hegley
Producer: Diane Messias
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in June 1994.
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