麻豆约拍

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the 麻豆约拍'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 麻豆约拍 Radio 4 in 2016.

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