Hanne Bramness
Friday 23 November 2007 21:45-22:30 (Radio 3)
Ian McMillan talks to award-winning Norwegian poet Hanne Bramness and is joined by writers who have collaborated on a special poem to mark the 450th anniversary of the Equals sign.
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On The Verb this week Ian McMillan talks to Anne Fadiman, champion of the essay about her latest collection.
Also on the show poets Ira Lightman and Peter Finch unveil their new poem, written especially for The Verb, which celebrates the 450th anniversary of the equals sign.
Before the work of Robert Recorde, who invented what we know as the equals sign in 1657, the symbol used to represent equals looked rather like a double 'l', so in their poem Peter and Ira have used all the double 'l' words they could find.
Also on the show, Nick Leather joins Ian to introduce the play he wrote for this year's Free Thinking Festival in Liverpool, a moving piece inspired by the subject of freedom which weaves together three monologues.
And award winning Norwegian poet Hanne Bramness talks to Ian about why light is such a pre-occupation in her work and reads from her latest collection.
At Large and At Small by Anne Fadiman is published by Penguin
Salt in the Eye by Hanne Bramness, Shearsman Books
