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Sibling relationships with Blake Morrison, Natalie Shapero, Tara Bergin, and the word 'literally'

Ian McMillan's guests are Blake Morrison, Natalie Shapero and Tara Bergin.

Ian McMillan is joined by Blake Morrison with the poetry of sibling relationships, Natalie Shapero - who reports poetically from the world of cinema in L.A., and Tara Bergin, who looks at how to escape from a poem, as well as sharing a 'Neon Line' with us.

We also have our cartoon for the ear - an 'eartoon' exploring the origins of confusing words in the English language - written and performed by Stagedoor Johnny (Richard Poynton).

Blake Morrison's new poetry collection is 'Afterburn' (Chatto and Windus) - his new book on writing memoir 'On Memoir' is published in April.

Natalie Shapero's collection 'Stay Dead' is published by Outspoken Press.

Tara Bergin's 'Savage Tales' is published by Carcanet

Produced by Faith Lawrence

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