| Stephanie Norgate was born in 1957 and grew up in Selborne, Hampshire. She spent part of her childhood reading the naturalist Gilbert White and playing in his house and garden, which impelled an early love of nature and of writing.
Norgate sees a connection between writing dialogue and writing poetry. She
explains: "Radio uses the voice in a similar way to poetry." She also sees a
kinship in the way the two mediums function, saying: "poetry and drama
have intensity and crystallisation in common, as well as subtext."
Stephanie Norgate's first full length collection Hidden River (2008),
was shortlisted for both the Forward First Collection Prize and the
Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize. These poems make invisible inner
worlds concrete and examine our sensuous contact with each other and
with nature. Norgate writes movingly on the private rituals of birth,
love and loss and how they seem to ghost themselves onto the internal
and external landscape.
In this Archive recording you can hear the poignant a perfect example of
a paralysed larynx which is written in response to her father's trip to hospital
as a cancer patient. Norgate's illuminating introduction is an interesting
examination of the way a poet's mind works, and how much of a poem is
unconsciously constructed.
1. Green Lane 1.11
2. Bulb Primer 1.50
3. 'a perfect example
of a paralysed larynx' 4.22
4. Back at the Dry 2.11
5. Early Morning 2.24
6. Water on the Moon 1.48
7. Saintes Maries de la Mer 3.03
8. Riddles: The Wareham
Sword, The Alfred Jewel,
Augustine’s Riddle 2.18
9. Irrigator in the Far Field 1.42
10. Haiku from Lucretius:
Sensuous Proof of
Atomism, Aulis 5.08
11. Mud Bath 2.08
12. The Shirt 2.49
13. Mrs. Rochester 2.23
14. Reflux: The Japanese
Bridge at Giverny 2.32
15. Metro Boy 2.14
16. It’s Not on Google 1.48
17. Last Saturday at Jo’s 1.41
18. bargain 0.33
19. Madron Well 1.54
20. Send & Receive –
fifteen sonnets 13.34
Total length of the recording 57.37
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