As is appropriate for November, our theme is the supernatural ... living on the edge between life and death, the presence of death in life and of life in death.
Celebrating Halloween, we look at the possibilties for afterlife with Jo Shapcott and, a poet new to the program, the American Dana Gioia. Patricia Beer talks about her relationship with her dead mother in The Lost Woman and the Portuguese poet Sophia de Mello Breyner talks of her late husband's approach to death in The Small Square. While we commemorate the dead of war with Karl Shapiro's Elegy for a Dead Soldier.
Robert Graves bridges the gap from this theme into our celebration of married love with No More Ghosts. Then we have poems to wives from Graves, George Szirtes, W S Graham and - to Shakespeare's wife - from Carol Ann Duffy.
And to husbands or other partners from Sharon Olds, Margaret Atwood, Vicki Feaver and - Sophia de Mello Breyner.
Sadly it looks unlikely that the show will continue to receive funding ... and may have to finish at the end of the year.
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