27/01/2013
Roger McGough with a selection of listeners' poetry requests. Leontia Flynn reads her own poems. John Mackay and Eleanor Tremain read work by Larkin, Milosz and Charles Causley.
Roger McGough with a selection of listeners' poetry requests. Leontia Flynn reads her own poems. John Mackay and Eleanor Tremain read work by others including Larkin, Milosz and Charles Causley.
Inspiration is the theme of two of the poems today in Charles Causley's lovely 'Kelly Wood' , and one by the Estonian, Jaan Kaplinski. There are a couple of love poems - one by RS Thomas and one by Moniza Alvi, tempered by Larkin's typical cynicism in 'Love Songs in Age'. Larkin was the poet who really sparked Leontia Flynn's interest in poetry and she joins the programme to read a poem about comfortably resisting the urge to travel, and to introduce a selection of her work from her highly commended collection 'Profit and Loss'.
There's also a poem advocating the joys of metaphor by Mark Doty, a clever and moving one by the late Wislawa Szymoborska called 'Cat in an Empty Apartment', and Hopkin's magical celebration of weeds and wilderness, 'Inversnaid'.
Producer: Sarah Langan.
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This Week's Poems
Kelly Wood
By Charles Causley
From Charles Causley – Collected Poems
Publisher: MacMillan
The Birth of a Poem
By Jaan Kaplinski
Translated by Jaan Kaplinski and Fiona Sampson
From Evening Brings Everything Back
Publisher: Bloodaxe
Love Songs in Age
By Philip Larkin
From Philip Larkin – Collected Poems
Publisher: The Marvell Press / Faber and Faber
The Furthest Distances I've Travelled
By Leontia Flynn
From These Days
Publisher: Cape
The Wiper
By Louis MacNeice
From Louis MacNeice – Collected Poems
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Flute Player
By Farzaneh Khojandi
Translated by Farzaneh Khojandi and Jo Shapcott
Taken from the Poetry Translation Centre website – www.poetrytranslation.org
Publisher: Enitharmon
Biography of an Artist
Czeslaw Milosz
From Czeslaw Milosz – New and Collected Poems 1931-2001
Publisher: Penguin
Cat in an Empty Apartment
Wislawa Szymborksa
From Wislawa Szymborska – Poems New and Collected 1957-1997
Publisher: Faber and Faber
The Superser
By Leontia Flynn
From Profit and Loss
Publisher: Cape Poetry
Reminders
By Leontia Flynn
From Profit and Loss
Publisher: Cape Poetry
The Peace Lily
By Leontia Flynn
From Profit and Loss
Publisher: Cape Poetry
The Floppy Disk
By Leontia Flynn
From Profit and Loss
Publisher: Cape
Description
By Mark Doty
From Atlantis
Publisher: Cape Poetry
Inversnaid
By Gerard Manley Hopkins
From the Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Publisher: Oxford University Press
The Way of It
By R S Thomas
From The Way of It
Publisher: Ceofrith Press
A Bowl of Warm Air
By Moniza Alvi
From Split World – Poems 1990-2005
Publisher: Bloodaxe
The Exorcism
By Leontia Flynn
From Profit and Loss
Publisher: Cape Poetry
Broadcasts
- Sun 27 Jan 201316:30BBC Radio 4
- Sat 2 Feb 201323:30BBC Radio 4
