Adventures In Poetry - First Party at Ken Kesey's with Hell's Angels

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the BBC's poetry archive and selects Adventures in Poetry - First Party at Ken Kesey's with Hell's Angels.

**Daljit reads from his Poetry Extra Book of the Month: Startlement by Ada Limon.

In 1965 the novelist Ken Kesey threw a party at his home in La Honda, California. Allen Ginsberg was there and wrote a poem about it. Peggy Reynolds explores the story behind the poem and discovers quite a few things that Ginsberg failed to mention.

We broadcast this episode to celebrate Allan Ginsberg as the latest artist to join 4 Extra’s illustrious 100 Club. Born on 3rd of June in 1926 he died, aged 70, in 1997.

Presenter - Peggy Reynolds

Producer - Peter Everett

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2007.