Ben Okri
Poet and Booker prize winner Ben Okri joins Roger McGough to talk about his selection of poetry from the listener request database. Derek Walcott, Jackie Kay and WB Yeats all make an appearance, and the writer reads some of his own work. Producer Sally Heaven.
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This Week's Poems
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Begin With a Leap
By Ben Okri
From Wild
Published by Rider
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Extract from The Lovesong of J Alfred Prufrock
By T. S. Eliot
From Prufrock and Other Observations
Published by Faber & Faber
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Extract from The Schooner Flight
By Derek Walcott
From Derek Walcott – Collected Poems 1948-1984
Published by Faber & Faber
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Extract from Prayer for my Daughter
By ÌýW. B. Yeats
From The Collected Poems of W.B Yeats
Published by Palgrave
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Pied Beauty
By Gerard Manley Hopkins
From The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Published by Oxford University Press
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Egusi Soup
by Jackie Kay
From Fiere
Published by Picador
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Elegy for Alto
by Christopher Okigbo
From Labyrinths
Published by Heinemann
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More Fishes Than Stars
By Ben Okri
From Wild
Published by Rider
Broadcasts
- Sun 21 Apr 2019 20:00±«Óãtv Radio 4
- Sat 27 Apr 2019 23:30±«Óãtv Radio 4