Rhyme is a technique often associated with 'old-fashioned' poetry, cheesy greetings cards and advertising slogans. But it’s also a fundamental part of our language - from the nursery rhymes of childhood to the sing song rhymes that can mark the final years of dementia, when language empties of meaning.
Dame Gillian Beer will be explaining to Martha the continued appeal of that most maligned of literary devices – rhyme.
Dame Gillian Beer is delivering the annual Poetry Society lecture 'Rhyming as Intimacy, Rhyming as Radicalism' on Tueaday 16th January.
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