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The Young People's Laureate for London Cecilia Knapp delves into Poetry Please's listener requests and shares a selection of her favourite poems, including Danez Smith, Rachel Long and Frank O'Hara. And we'll hear Cecilia read one of her own poems.

Producer: Caitlin Hobbs for Â鶹ԼÅÄ Audio in Bristol

Everything is going to be alright by Derek Mahon
From Derek Mahon – Selected Poems
Published by Penguin

For Grace, after a party by Frank O’ Hara
From The Collected Poems of Frank O’Hara
Published by California University Press

Names by Romalyn Ante
From Antiemetic for Â鶹ԼÅÄsickness
Published by Chatto & Windus

Checkout by Caroline Bird
From The Air Year
Published by Carcanet Press Ltd

Hotel Art, Barcelona by Rachel Long
From My Darling From The Lions
Published by Picador; Main Market edition

My Mother Quit Bread by Cecilia Knapp
From her upcoming anthology published by Trapeze

Hope is the thing with feathers by Emily Dickinson
From The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Published by Faber

Crossing The Bar by Alfred Tennyson
From Selected Poems: Tennyson
Published by Penguin Classics

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