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Poems to help us brave the elements

Ian McMillan with elemental haiku, poetry that moves mountains, and the best new writing.

Ian McMillan's poets this week show how the tiniest poem can help us brave the fiercest elements - from the splosh of a frog into water, in an haiku that's inspired generation after generation, to the forces that shape mountains, and end up shaping our own lives.

Poets Robert Crawford and Keith Jarrett share poems of fire, air, water and earth - and Professor of Physical Geography Jamie Woodward takes us close to a landscape that's inspired life-changing poems, and to poetry that can help us understand the changing landscape.

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42 minutes

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Sun 20 Sep 202617:10

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  • Sun 20 Sep 202617:10

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