Every Little Touch

Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and selects Every Little Touch presented by Noo Saro-Wiwa.

Whether it’s the missing hug of a parent, the affirmation of a handshake, or the grabbing of a handrail on a bus, the boundaries of our sense of touch changed during covid.

The writer Noo Saro-Wiwa gives her personal perspective on poetry’s relationship with touch, and speaks to modern poets about what it means to them now.

With extracts from Thom Gunn, Anne Carson, Alfred Tennyson, Imtiaz Dharker and Sarah Jackson’s book Tactile poetics and music by Jonsi.

The readers are Simon Russell Beale and Sheila Ruskin.

Producer: Emily Williams

Sound Design by Jess Hatton-Brown

A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in 2020.