Lamanby By Jacob Polley

Jacob Polley

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Lamanby by 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. This extraordinary story revolves around a childhood house that 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 filled with 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.

This recording is part of the Old Time Radio collection.