Bespoken Word - 01/12/2010

Bespoken Word, Radio 4's performance poetry series, this week features two incredible women: queen of the salacious, Hastings poet Salena Godden, plus one of the most exciting new talents, Indigo Williams. Salena Godden is the most mischievous of today's female performance poets. She has travelled the world performing and writing, as well as television and radio presenting. As the title of one of her best known pieces "Hunger is the Best Sauce" suggests, she's the queen of the salacious. Her performances are legendary, from London's Book Slam to festivals around the country where she regularly performs her showstopper "Lick It". She has hosted workshops in schools across Britain and in New York to inspire teenagers to write fiction and/or poetry. She hosts The Book Club Boutique, Soho's hippest literary salon, celebrating all things 'Books, Booze and Boogie-Woogie', featuring poets including Laura Dockrill, John Hegley, Niall O'Sullivan, Aoife Mannix, Francesca Beard, Paul Lyalls and Kate Tempest. As a writer she's been published in a myriad of both mainstream and art-house literary magazines and anthologies. Bespoken Word was the first programme on British radio or television devoted to performance poetry. It is now in its seventh year. The guest presenter this week is Whitbread winning author Patrick Neate. Producer: Graham Frost A Somethin Else production for BBC Radio 4.