Tell Me the Truth About Love and Deaths of the Poets

Daljit Nagra selects two highlights from the archives:

* Tell Me the Truth About Love

* Deaths of the Poets

* Plus Daljit reads from his Poetry Extra Book of the Month - a recently published new book of poetry: Beast by Pascale Petit.

TELL ME THE TRUTH ABOUT LOVE

In conversation with other love poets, Carol Ann Duffy focuses on poems exploring the highs and lows of a long-term relationship.

'John Anderson, my Jo' performed by Cast, from the album, Colours of Lichen (Greentrax Recordings)

Readings by Robert Blythe, Michael Shelford and Nicholas Murchie

Producer: Emma Harding.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2013.

DEATHS OF THE POETS

What is the cost of poetry?

The post-Romantic myth of the dissolute drunken poet has fatally skewed the image of poets in our culture.

Novelists can be stable, savvy, politically adept and in control, but poets should be melancholic, doomed and self-destructive.

Is this just a myth, or is there some essential truth behind it?

In this programme, award-winning poets Michael Symmons Roberts and Paul Farley explore the lives - and tragic deaths - of Thomas Chatterton and Dylan Thomas.

Written and read by the authors. Abridged by Lauris Morgan Griffiths

Producer: Simon Richardson.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2017