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Ragbag Presents

Ep67: Theophilus Kwek & Flick Flick Boom Yeah

Season 1, Ep. 67
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Frank rambles on for a while about Samuel Pepys, street lights and unrecorded history (again), before interviewing the brilliant poet, Theophilus Kwek, whose new poetry collection, Moving House (Carcanet Press, 2020), is a humanist masterpiece.

 

This episode features the poems, ‘24.6.16’ and ‘Final Cut.’

 

More about Theophilis here: https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?owner_id=1863

 

This week’s music:

Max Draztic – Epiphany: https://archive.org/details/DADA145

Lee Rosevere - Going In Circles & Cloudloop: https://leerosevere.bandcamp.com/ 

Theme tune: ProleteR - April Showers: https://proleter.bandcamp.com

 

Frank’s website: www.frankburton.co.uk  

Frank’s email: fjb79@hotmail.com

 

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