By Millie Pavitt
The BBC’s Poetry Season invites you to vote for the Nation’s Favourite Poet! http://www.bbc.co.uk/poetryseason/
Watch and listen to poetry on BBC iPlayer and read some wonderful poetry by well known poets including Ar
von tutors Simon Armitage, Carol Ann Duffy and Patrick Neate.
Famous people make their own celebrity choices and cast their vote for the Nation’s Favourite Poet. Hear English actress Sunetra Sarker discuss our new Poet Laureate and how she has “always been affected by the female solidarity on show in Carol Ann Duffy’s poems”. Carol Ann Duffy is currently tutoring Arvon course Poetry for Children: Princesses, Bangers and Mash this week at Moniack Mhor, Inverness-shire.
You can also read Patrick Neate on Duffy’s splendid anger and poetry slams in his Spoken Word column Anger Management. Patrick will be tutoring Fiction: So How’s it done? The Hurst, The John Osborne Arvon Centre in October. http://www.bbc.co.uk/poetryseason/spoken_word.shtml
