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Sounds,26 Mar 2026,35 mins

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Frank Skinner celebrates the Beat Poets 鈥 a generation of poets in the 1940s and 50s who rebelled against American conventions, championed 鈥榮pontaneous writing鈥, and won over Frank in a school assembly. Poems referenced include: Lawrence Ferlinghetti - Sometime During Eternity Gregory Corso - Man About to Enter Sea Allen Ginsberg - Sunflower Sutra William Wordsworth - I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud Lawrence Ferlinghetti 鈥 He Plus Frank argues that Jack Kerouac鈥檚 On the Road is a poem too.

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