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.
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This Week's Poems
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 16:00³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4 FM
- Tomorrow 16:00³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ Radio 4 FM