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For our watery and wild Verb - which flows though the water of chalk streams, the ocean, a baby's bath water, and birth waters - Ian McMillan is joined by Ruth Padel, Vik Sharma, Caroline Bergvall and Will Burns. Ruth and Vik share their collaboration '24 Splashes of Denial' which combines an apprehension of loss with vast and delicate beauty, Will Burns reads a new commission for The Verb on his experience of chalk streams (a globally rare and 'gin-clear' habitat) in Buckinghamshire, and Caroline Bergvall opens a door in our watery imagination, tracing the idea of refuge in extracts from her project 'Nattsong'.

Wild Poetry 'Call-out' !

From Ian McMillan: "As part of the BBC\u2019s celebration of our wild isles, we thought we\u2019d tap into the deep waters of the Verb listeners\u2019 collective and individual imaginations. We want to see your poems that use the idea of wildness as their seed \u2013 they could be as short as a haiku \u2013 or as long as twenty lines \u2013 that\u2019s the limit. We're particularly interested in poems that take the word \u2018wild\u2019 itself on a journey. Email your poems to Theverb@bbc.co.uk. Although we won\u2019t be able to respond to each poem, together they\u2019ll give us a national snapshot - a moment in wild time that we\u2019ll explore later in the year; we\u2019ll share some of your poems on-air. \nSend us your poems by the 23rd of June."