Lamanby By Jacob Polley

Lamanby By Jacob Polley    Jacob Polley - winner of the 2016 TS Eliot prize for poetry - is regarded as one of the leading talents of the new generation of British poets. Lamanby is his extraordinary story of a childhood house which becomes the site of an alternative personal history.   On the eve of the sale of the house he grew up in, an ancient rural farmhouse of creaking floors and shadows, a man returns to spend a final night in the empty rooms. What he begins to hear and experience in the dark is a strange, poetic and powerful dream-vision of the house, far bigger, more fantastic and frightening than the reality - a place resonating with its own history of voices and music.   With remarkable music and soundscapes created by John Alder, Lamanby movingly explores how we might hold on to what matters. Contains Strong Language NARRATOR - Jacob Polley MUDDER - Gillian Kearney MUGGINSHERE - Kevin Doyle JAKE - Sam Hattersley JEREMY WREN - Ashley Margolis OLD MAN - Alan Rothwell Hull 2017:  Part of, a season of poetry and performance . Directed in Salford by Susan Roberts First broadcast:  Thu 28th Sep 2017 14:15 on BBC Radio 4 FM

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.