Life In Lines

These five-minute podcasts are interviews with Nottingham people who were all asked the same question: tell us your favourite poem, and what it is about the poem that you love. Needless to say, the chosen poems are all absolute beauties, and the listener gets fantastic insights into the poems and also the hearts and souls of the people who chose them.

Nottingham is a UNESCO City of Literature and this city-wide project, which celebrates the secret, inner world of poetry as people go about their daily lives in the city, is the first project of its kind. As the saying goes, ‘What Nottingham does today, the world does tomorrow…’.

Life In Lines’s tracks

• Henry Normal on Piet Hein, 'Consolation Grook' by Life In Lines
• Jade Moore, on Fernando Pessoa, 'Countless Lives Inhabit Us' by Life In Lines
• Georgina Wilding on Sharon Olds 'The Healers' by Life In Lines
• Mel Jeffs on Maya Angelou's 'Still I Rise' by Life In Lines
• Leanne Moden on Emily Dickinson's '"Hope" is the thing with feathers' by Life In Lines
• Matt Turpin on Thomas Hardy's 'An August Midnight' by Life In Lines
• Ross Bradshaw on Elaine Feinstein's ‘Allegiance' by Life In Lines
• Geraldine Gray on R S Thomas's ‘The Coming’ by Life In Lines
• Leah Wilkins on W S Merwin, ‘Looking Up In The Garden’ by Life In Lines
• Panya Banjoko on Jean Binta Breeze's ‘Ordinary Morning’ by Life In Lines