Book Show 2008-11-21
The Book Show
The Book Show is ABC Radio National's home for the discussion of everything relating to the written word. This daily program will explore the many worlds in which we find readers and writers, publishers and booksellers, playwrights and lyricists, bloggers and journalists, book illustrators and type designers -- all working with words and the medium of language.
Anna Akhmatova
In Russia, poets are like rock stars and during the Stalinist era purges they represented the voice of the people. This was a heavy burden. Many poets went into exile, but not Anna Akhmatova. She stayed, was denounced and kept writing as fellow poets were executed. Anna Akhmatova was born into Tsarist Russia in 1889. Her first book Evening was published before World War I. She lived through the October Revolution, the civil war, Stalin, the terror years, World War II and the r... 
