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Jeanette Winterson

Jeanette Winterson joins Roger McGough, sharing a seasonal selection of listener requested poems, including the words of Carol Ann Duffy, Stevie Smith and Anne Sexton.

Jeanette Winterson joins Roger McGough, sharing a seasonal selection of listener requested poems. Together they explore light, love and religion, through the words of Carol Ann Duffy, Stevie Smith, Anne Sexton and many more.

Jeanette Winterson is an award-winning novelist, essayist and memoirist. She is best known for her semi-autobiographical novel 'Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit', which she wrote at the age of 23, inspired by her strict Pentecostal Evangelist upbringing in Accrington, Lancashire.

Produced by Alice McKee for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Audio

28 minutes

Last on

Christmas Eve 2023 00:15

This Week's Poems

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Sunlight on the Garden

By Louis MacNeice

From The Collected Poems of Louis MacNeice

Published by Faber and Faber

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Journey of the Magi

By T.S. Eliot

From T.S. Eliot – Collected Poems 1909-1962

Published by Faber & Faber

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The Light Gatherer

By Carol Ann Duffy

From Feminine Gospels

Published by Picador

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An Arundel Tomb

By Philip Larkin

From Philip Larkin - Collected Poems

Published by Faber & Faber

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Atlas

By UA Fanthorpe

From Collected Poems 1978-2003

Published by Peterloo Poets

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The Bright Field

By RS Thomas

From Laboratories of the Spirit

Published by Macmillan

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I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day

By Gerard Manley Hopkins

From the Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

Published by Oxford University Press

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The Galloping Cat

By Stevie Smith

From Collected Poems

Published by New Directions

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The Fury of Sunsets

By Anne Sexton

From The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton

Published by Mariner Books


Broadcasts

  • Sun 17 Dec 2023 16:30
  • Christmas Eve 2023 00:15