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Karen McCarthy Woolf

Karen McCarthy Woolf, the award winning poet of Jamaican-British heritage joins Roger McGough to make her selection of listeners' poems.

Producer: Maggie Ayre

28 minutes

Last on

Sat 1 Jun 2019 23:30

This Week's Poems

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An Aviary of Small Birds

By Karen McCarthy Woolf

From An Aviary of Small Birds

Published by Oxford Poets

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Her Silent Wake

By Malika Booker

From Unwritten: Caribbean Poems After the First World War

Published by Nine Arches Press

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Delivery Room

By Mona Arshi

From Dear Big Gods

Published by Pavilion

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The Registrar’s Office

By Karen McCarthy Woolf

From An Aviary of Small Birds

Published by Oxford Poets

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Reasons for Leaving ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ

By Belinda Zhawi

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Speculations About I (74 lines)

By Toi Derricote

From β€œI”: New and Selected Poems

Copyright 2019

Aired by permission of University of Pittsburgh Press

Recording thanks to Poetry Foundation

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Extract from It Turned Red

By Amy Key & Rebecca Perry

From The Scores

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Scilla

By Louise GlΓΌck

From The Wild Iris

Published by Carcanet Press Ltd

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Fisherman’s Song

By Kayo Chingonyi

From Kumukanda

Published by Chatto & Windus

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Outside

By Karen McCarthy Woolf

From Seasonal Disturbances

Published by Carcanet Press Ltd

 

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Broadcasts

  • Sun 26 May 2019 16:30
  • Sat 1 Jun 2019 23:30