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Deryn Rees-Jones

Poet Deryn Rees-Jones joins Roger McGough with a personal selection of listener requests including poems by Robert Frost, Stevie Smith, Denise Saul, Seamus Heaney and John Burnside

For the last episode in the current series, Roger McGough is joined by poet and editor Deryn Rees-Jones, who makes a personal selection of poems requested by listeners. Deryn's choices include poems by Robert Frost, George Herbert, Medbh McGuckian, Stevie Smith, Denise Saul, Seamus Heaney, Wanda Coleman and John Burnside, who died in May 2024.

Produced by Sally Heaven and Emma Harding for ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Audio Bristol.

28 minutes

On radio

Tomorrow 16:00

This Week's Poems

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Tree At My Window

By Robert Frost

From The Poetry of Robert Frost

Published by Jonathan Cape

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Love (iii)

By George Herbert

From George Herbert – The Complete English Poems

Published by Penguin Classics

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SlipsÌý

By Medbh McGuckian

From Medbh McGuckian - Selected Poems 1978-1994

Published by The Gallery Press

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Black March

By Stevie Smith

From The Collected Poems of Stevie Smith

Published by Penguin Modern Classics

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Glanmore Sonnets - VII

By Seamus Heaney

From Seamus Heaney – Opened Ground – Poems 1966-1996

Published by Faber & Faber

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A Daughter's Perspective

By Denise Saul

From The Room Between Us

Published by Liverpool University Press

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Exoteric

By Wanda ColemanÌý

From Ostinato Vamps

Published by Blacksparrow Press

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Animals

By John Burnside

From The Light Trap

Published by Jonathan Cape

Recording courtesy of The Poetry Archive

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Summer

By Deryn Rees-Jones

From What It's Like to Be Alive: Selected Poems

Published by Seren


Broadcasts

  • Tue 25 Jun 2024 16:00
  • Tomorrow 16:00