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Women Poets

Roger McGough presents a selection of poetry written by women including Charlotte Mew, Wendy Cope and Kathleen Jamie. Maya Angelou reads her own work in a recording from the archives. Other readers are Lucy Black and Fiona Shaw. Producer Sally Heaven.

30 minutes

Last on

Sat 12 Mar 2016 23:30

This Week's Poems

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Now I become myself

by May Sarton

Taken from

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Phenomenal Woman

By Maya Angelou

From Maya Angelou - The Complete Collected Poems

Published by Virago

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The Creel

by Kathleen Jamie

Taken from

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Names

By Wendy Cope

From Two Cures for Love

Published by Faber and Faber

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Storm Warnings

By Adrienne Rich

From The Fact of a Doorframe – Poems Selected and New 1950-1984

Published by Norton

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Dreamwood

By Adrienne Rich

Taken from

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The Coat

by Vicki Feaver

From Close Relatives

Published by Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd

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Rain AfterÌýDrought

By Mary Morison Webster

From

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The Train

Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

Taken from

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Hatred

By Wislawa Szymborska

Translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh

From Wislawa Szymborska – Poems New and Collected 1957-1997

Published by Faber and Faber

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May 1915

By Charlotte Mew

From Charlotte Mew – Collected Poems

Published by Gerald Duckworth and Co Ltd

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June 1915

By Charlotte Mew

From Charlotte Mew – Collected Poems

Published by Gerald Duckworth and Co Ltd

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Courage

By Anne Sexton

From The Complete PoemsÌý of Anne Sexton

Published by Houghton Mifflin

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When I Shall Die

By Olive Fraser

Sent in by requester

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Stargazer

By Jo Shapcott

From Of Mutability

Published by Faber and Faber

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Hello

By Sheenagh Pugh

Taken from Sheenagh Pugh – Selected Poems

Published by Seren Books

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By Elaine Feinstein

From Elaine Feinstein – Collected Poems and Translations

Published by Carcanet

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Enough for Me

by Fadwa Tuqan

Taken from

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Italia, Io Ti Saluto!

By Christina Rossetti

From Christina Rossetti – Poems and Prose

Published by Everyman

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Bird

By Myra Schneider

From Circling the Core

Published by Enitharmon

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Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Roger McGough
Reader Maya Angelou
Reader Lucy Black
Reader Fiona Shaw
Producer Sally Heaven

Broadcasts

  • Sun 6 Mar 2016 16:30
  • Sat 12 Mar 2016 23:30