Adventures In Poetry: Edna St Vincent Millay: First Fig

To mark 75 years since the death of the American poet and playwright Edna St Vincent Millay, Daljit Nagra selects Adventures in Poetry featuring Millay's short poem First Fig.

This single-stanza poem has had an extraordinary life.

Peggy Reynolds traces its journey from the bohemia of Greenwich Village in New York, where it was written nearly 100 years ago.

* And Daljit reads from his Poetry Extra Book of the Month: Chaotic Good by Isabelle Baafi.

Producer: Tim Dee

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2006.