Graham Fawcett - Emily Dickinson

The Emily Dickinson trail leads to yearning, deep love and intense friendship passionately expressed in poems and letters, the
shadow of her public father, Americas Civil War which raged over the four years that she spent climbing to the height of her powers
as a poet, and a very enlightening house on Main Street, Amherst, Massachusetts which was her famous home.This is an inspirational tale of the triumph of one womans convention-busting personal choice against all the odds in a small-town society she daringly chose to shut the door on. Already at the age of 25, though lively, funny and good company, she was saying, 'I don't go from home unless emergency leads me by the hand'. Strangely, the house helps explain why she did it. And the result of her decision to stay at home was a redoubling of her creative output, which built up a total of 1775 extraordinary unsuspected poems discovered at her death in neat bundles she had left in a drawer . . .Graham Fawcett worked as a writer, deviser, interviewer and presenter with BBC Radio Three for twenty-five years and has also broadcast on Radio 4, the World Service, and the Italian Service.