Vince Laws talks about the commission of his radio play Small Frayed Knot
7 June 2010
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Late last year, Future Radio, Norwich, commissioned a 15-minute radio play from me. Soon after that, I spent a week in Yorkshire on an Arvon residential poetry course in Ted Hughes’s old house, specifically aimed at taking poetry from page to stage. I was encouraged to fill in the back-stories to some of my more confessional poems. All this together resulted in The Small Frayed Knot. The title is a line from my poem Diagnosed, which I made into a visual piece by painting the left side of...