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Karen McCarthy Woolf

Karen McCarthy Woolf, the award winning poet of Jamaican-British heritage joins Roger McGough to make her selection of listeners' poems.

Producer: Maggie Ayre

28 minutes

Last on

Sat 1 Jun 2019 23:30

This Week's Poems

An Aviary of Small Birds

By Karen McCarthy Woolf

From An Aviary of Small Birds

Published by Oxford Poets

Her Silent Wake

By Malika Booker

From Unwritten: Caribbean Poems After the First World War

Published by Nine Arches Press

Delivery Room

By Mona Arshi

From Dear Big Gods

Published by Pavilion

The Registrar鈥檚 Office

By Karen McCarthy Woolf

From An Aviary of Small Birds

Published by Oxford Poets

Reasons for Leaving 成人快手

By Belinda Zhawi

Speculations About I (74 lines)

By Toi Derricote

From 鈥淚鈥: New and Selected Poems

Copyright 2019

Aired by permission of University of Pittsburgh Press

Recording thanks to Poetry Foundation

Extract from It Turned Red

By Amy Key & Rebecca Perry

From The Scores

Scilla

By Louise Gl眉ck

From The Wild Iris

Published by Carcanet Press Ltd

Fisherman鈥檚 Song

By Kayo Chingonyi

From Kumukanda

Published by Chatto & Windus

Outside

By Karen McCarthy Woolf

From Seasonal Disturbances

Published by Carcanet Press Ltd

Broadcasts

  • Sun 26 May 2019 16:30
  • Sat 1 Jun 2019 23:30