Jo Clement
Jo Clement chooses her selection of poems.
Growing up with a grandfather who wore gold sovereign rings and took her to the Appleby Horse Fair Jo Clement absorbed the Romany traditions he showed her. Her poetry addresses life for a marginalised people from the Traveller girls used for a fashion shoot to the gatherings and customs of Gypsy people. Jo is Editor of Butcher's Dog Poetry Magazine and her first collection of poems Outlandish is published this year by Bloodaxe.
Among her choices of poetry requests are John Clare's To The Snipe, Preface from Swims by Elizabeth Jane Burnett and Nightingales by fellow Romany poet David Morley.
Producer: Maggie Ayre
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This Week's Poems
Inheritance
By Jo Clement
From Outlandish
Bloodaxe Books, 2022
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Begin
By Brendan Kennelly
From The Essential Brendan Kennelly
Published by Bloodaxe, 2011
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Preface
By Elizabeth-Jane Burnett
From Swims
Published by Penned in the Margins, 2017
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To the Snipe
By John Clare
From John Clare: Major Works
Published by Oxford University Press
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Nightingales
By David Morley Μύ
From Enchantment
Published by Carcanet, 2010
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Market
By Jo Clement Μύ
From Outlandish
Published by Bloodaxe Books, 2022
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Sheep Crook and Black Dog
(Traditional)
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