The Verb: Breath

Ian McMillan and guests explore how breath shapes and moulds the poetic line and stanza, how it can breathe life into a story and how breathing itself can be a kind of narrative. Ian is joined by the poet Stephen Watts whose poems pulse and flow with the rhythm of breath, novelist Emma Carroll whose book The Tale of Truthwater Lake breathes life into the future and revives the past, James Nestor a journalist and Free diver who teaches us how to survive without breathing and poet Daisy Lafarge whose collection Life Without Air was was shortlisted for the TS Eliot prize