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World Service,1 min

Finding poetry in city chatter

The Why Factor

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The poet Imtiaz Dharker takes ‘furtive pleasure’ in ‘lying in wait for secrets that people don’t even know they’re telling, that they’re not ready to tell’. Sometimes what she overhears ends up in her poems. (Photo: Imtiaz Dharker, Credit: BBC)

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