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Episode: I, by the Tide of Humber
Description: BBC coverage of Hull City of Culture will be extensive across 2017. At its very start, the award-winning poet Sean O'Brien reflects upon why his native city, its waterscape and landscape, have inspired poets past and present. The programme features a specially commissioned new poem from Sean - a three-part memory-piece, which is also a love-song for Hull, its surroundings and their metaphorical resonance: ........The great void
Where the land loses track of itself,
And the water comes sidling past at the roadsideAwaiting the signal to flood, is a kind of belief
Where...