Winter Poems
In the run up to the Winter Solstice, poet Daljit Nagra selects Four Seasons: Winter - an anthology of seasonal poems. From 2016.
Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's radio poetry archive and selects Four Seasons: Winter - an anthology of seasonal poems originally broadcast on Winter Solstice 2016.
Memorable and much loved verse by Robert Burns, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Louis MacNeice and Walter De la Mare, read by Simon Russell Beale, Noma Dumezweni, Bill Paterson and Anton Lesser, join recent poems read by the poets, Kathleen Jamie, Liz Lochhead, Don Paterson, Simon Armitage and Carol Ann Duffy. There is rain and snow and frost and a robin sings its winter song. And joining these is a new poem by Kayo Chingonyi remembering a teenage winter in Dagenham.
The poems, originally broadcast on Winter Solstice 2016 across the schedule on Radio 4, are gathered together and broadcast here in this compilation programme.
Up in the Morning Early by Robert Burns
Read by Bill Paterson
Extract from Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage
Birds at Winter Nightfall
By Thomas Hardy
Read by Sinead Cusack
In the mid midwinter by Liz Lochhead
From new book published by BIRLINN
Rain by Don Paterson.
From Rain published by Faber and Faber
Now Winter Nights Enlarge
By Thomas Campion
Read by Juliet Stevenson
Snow by Carol Ann Duffy.
Was published in The Guardian 24/12/210.
A Robin by Walter de la Mare
Read by Noma Dumezweni
Perfect Day by Kathleen Jamie
from the Queen of Sheba published by Bloodaxe
Read by Kathleen Jamie
Snowman (also referred to as Winter Song) by Kayo Chingonyi
Read by Kayo Chingonyi
Specially commissioned
Snow by Louis MacNeice
From Collected Poems published by Faber and Faber
Read by Anton Lesser
The Twelve Months
By George Ellis
Read by Bill Paterson
Frost at Midnight by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Read by Simon Russell Beale
Producer: Tim Dee.
First broadcast on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 in 2016.
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