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Lost Voices - Series 1

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Poet Brian Patten explores the life and work of lesser-known or forgotten poets

logo for Lost Voices - Series 1 - Dom Moraes: The Double Exile
Lost Voices - Series 1 - Dom Moraes: The Double Exile

Born in India, educated at Oxford, Dom Moraes's work betrayed the melancholy of a man who never quite belonged either in India or England.

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Lost Voices - Series 1 - Harry Fainlight: Soul on Fire

Harry Fainlight was a young man of rare promise when a trip to America to meet the Beat poets in the early 1960s changed his life forever.

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Lost Voices - Series 1 - Rosemary Tonks: The Poet Who Vanished

Rosemary Tonks published two slim volumes of poetry before disappearing from public life in the late 1970s. Brian shares his enthusiasm for her work with other contemporary poets.

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Lost Voices - Series 1 - WH Davies

WH Davies travelled the world from his native Wales, sleeping rough and jumping trains. Brian remembers a poet whose work helped set him on his own way as a writer.

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