Well, maybe not quite, but the pressure was on - 'Kin' had to have an airing on today's Poetry Please or else, as my friend Jan pointed out, Dru Marland might be done for selling copies of 'Inking Bitterns', in which it appears, under false pretences.
In the event it was there, tucked in amongst offerings from Thomas Hardy, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Charlotte Brontë, Wislawa
Szymborska, Mark Doty, John Clare et al. How very exciting - even if it took four years from when Dru made her request. Clearly, the mills of the Beeb grind slow.
If you missed it and would like to hear it, follow this link. It's almost exactly half way through the programme, at 15.04 minutes in. Or wait until next Saturday, 4th June, when it will be repeated at 11.30pm.
As mentioned above, 'Kin' is published in Dru's 2012 illustrated anthology of nature poetry, Inking Bitterns, available from Gert Macky books, and also in my 2011 collection Communion, published by Indigo Dreams.
