Mona Arshi
Mona Arshi had a previous life as a human rights lawyer before she became a poet. She joins Roger McGough to make he selection of listeners' poem requests.
Mona Arshi was awarded the Forward Prize in 2015 for her debut poetry collection Small Hands. She's a former human rights lawyer and soon to be novelist. Her poetry selection includes work by Adrienne Rich, Caleb Femi and Gerard Manley Hopkins whose poem God's Grandeur she assesses from a 21st century perspective.
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This Week's Poems
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SomethingÌý
By Mona Arshi
From Dear Big Gods
Published by Liverpool University Press
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Song
By Adrienne Rich
From The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems 1950-2001
Published by W. W. Norton & Company
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Extract from A Part Song
By Denise Riley
From Say Something Back
Published by Picador
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Sympathy
By Paul Laurence Dunbar
From The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar
Published by Dodd, Mead and Company
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God's Grandeur
by Gerard Manley HopkinsÌý
From Gerard Manley Hopkins: Poems and Prose
Published by Penguin Classics
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The Hug
By Thom Gunn
From The Man with Night Sweats
Published by Faber & Faber
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Coping
By Caleb Femi
From Poor
Published by Penguin
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Afterwardness
By Mimi Khalvati Ìý
From Afterwardness
Published by Carcanet
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A Letter
By Amrita Pritam
Translated from the Punjabi by D.H. Tracy & Mohan Tracy
Taken from
(Minor liberties with wording have been taken relative to the print version)
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To SleepÌý
By John Keats
From Selected Poems: Keats
Published by Penguin Classics
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Insomniac
by Mona Arshi
From Small Hands
Published by Pavilion Poetry
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Broadcasts
- Sun 3 Jan 2021 16:30±«Óãtv Radio 4
- Sat 9 Jan 2021 23:30±«Óãtv Radio 4