Our Coast, Our Sea - Local Poet to feature on Radio 3

11 November 2010

Radio 3’s ‘The Verb’ this Friday features a poem from Katrina Porteous’ sequence ‘The Blue Lonnen’, ‘Sea, Sky, Stars’. This work was originally commissioned by Northumberland Coast AONB as part of a photography exhibition by Nigel Shuttleworth in Alnwick Playhouse.

Her reading of this poem, and others, is accompanied by Alistair Anderson on concertina and was recorded at The Sage Gateshead as part of the Radio 3 Free Thinking Festival last weekend. The show is presented by Ian MacMillan and also features The Unthanks, John Burnside and Alec Horne. It is broadcast on Radio 3 at 8.30-9.15 pm on Friday 12th Nov and is available for a week after that on the BBC i-player.