Simon Armitage
The Poet Laureate makes his pick of listeners' choices.
The Poet Laureate Simon Armitage is Roger McGough's guest with his pick of listeners' favourite poems. Many have an environmental theme and Simon talks about his responsibility as a poet to write about the natural world. There's also the chance to hear his own translation of an old English text documenting an argument between The Owl and The Nightingale
The programme includes:
Shakespeare - from Richard II
from The Owl and the Nightingale (anonymous - translated by Simon Armitage)
Alison Brackenbury - Honeycomb
Lorna Goodison - My Mother’s Sea Chanty
Shivanee Ramlochan - Caracara (or Kiskadee Bride)
William Wordsworth - a section from Michael
Thomas Hardy - A Light Snow-Fall After Frost
Wilfred Owen - Parable of the Old Man and the Young
Producer: Maggie Ayre
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This Week's Poems
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Extract from The Owl and the Nightingale
(Author anonymous )
Translation by Simon Armitage
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Honeycomb
By Alison Brackenbury
From Gallop – Selected Poems
Published by Carcanet
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Extract from Michael
By William Wordsworth
From The Collected Poems of William Wordsworth
Published by Wordsworth Editions
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A Light Snow-Fall After Frost
By Thomas Hardy
From The Oxford Authors – Thomas Hardy
Published by Oxford University Press
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Parable of the Old Man and the Young
By Wilfred Owen
From the anthology ‘Anthem for Doomed Youth’
Published by The Folio Society
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Caracara (or Kiskadee Bride)
By Shivanee Ramlochan
From Everyone Knows I Am a Haunting
Published by Peepal Tree Press
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Loveliest of Trees
By A.E Housman
From The Collected Poems of A.E Housman
Published by Jonathan Cape
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Extract from Richard II
by William Shakespeare
Taken from Richard II - Drama on 3. 10thÌý Feb 2019 (±«Óãtv production)
Performed by Joel McCormack
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My Mother’s Sea Chanty
By Lorna Goodison
From Guinea Woman: New and Selected Poems
Published by Carcanet
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Broadcasts
- Sun 13 Dec 2020 16:30±«Óãtv Radio 4
- Sat 19 Dec 2020 23:30±«Óãtv Radio 4