Fiona Benson
Fiona Benson joins Roger McGough to make a selection of listener requests, including poems by Liz Berry, Sharon Olds, Walt Whitman, Lucille Clifton and more.
Fiona Benson joins Roger McGough to make her selection from listeners' requests. She chooses poems by Lucille Clifton, Sophie Herxheimer, Robin Robertson, Liz Berry, Walt Whitman, Sharon Olds, Hannah Hodgson and Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Fiona has published three collections of poetry: Bright Travellers, which was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and won the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry's Prize for First Full Collection; Vertigo & Ghost, which won the Roehampton Poetry Prize and the Forward Prize for Best Collection; and a new collection, Ephemeron.
The extract from Walt Whitman's Song of Myself is taken from a Drama on 3 production for 麻豆约拍 Radio 3, broadcast in 2021. The reader was Eleanor Bron and the Producer was Emma Harding.
Produced by Mair Bosworth for 麻豆约拍 Audio
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This Week's Poems
鈥楲辞苍诲辞苍鈥�
By Sophie Herxheimer
Taken from 鈥淰elkom to Inklandt: Poems in my Grandmother's Inklische鈥�
Published by Short Books Ltd
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鈥榗ruelty, don't talk to me about cruelty鈥�
By Lucille Clifton
Taken from 鈥淭he Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton鈥�
Published by Boa Editions
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鈥楳ama Cockroach, I Love You鈥�
By Fiona Benson
From Ephemeron
Published by Cape Poetry
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听鈥楽ong of Myself鈥�
By Walt Whitman
Taken from 鈥淭he Complete Poems of Walt Whitman鈥�
Published by Wordsworth Editions
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鈥楾he Windhover鈥�
By Gerard Manley Hopkins
Taken from 鈥淭he Major Works鈥�
Published by Oxford University Press
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鈥楬er First Week鈥�
By Sharon Olds听
Taken from 鈥淭he Wellspring鈥�
Published by Knopf Publishing Group
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鈥楾he Republic of Motherhood鈥�
By Liz Berry
Taken from 鈥淭he Republic of Motherhood鈥�
Published by Chatto and Windus
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鈥楢t Roane Head鈥�
By Robin Robertson
Taken from 鈥淕rimoire鈥�
Published by Picador
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鈥楲ife Matures Like a Well Established Fruit Tree鈥�
By Hannah Hodgson
Taken from
Broadcasts
- Sun 29 May 2022 16:30麻豆约拍 Radio 4
- Sat 4 Jun 2022 23:30麻豆约拍 Radio 4