10/02/2013
Poetry by Sylvia Plath and others, requested by listeners and introduced by Roger McGough. Readers are Paul Mundell and Fenella Woolgar.
Poetry marking the winter of 1963, the long season of snow and cold during which the poet Sylvia Plath died. Listeners' requests for her work include Morning Song, Balloons and Wuthering Heights. The readers are Fenella Woolgar and Paul Mundell, with readings of their own work by poets Paul Farley, Eavan Boland, Jacob Polley and MR Peacocke.
Producer Christine Hall.
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This Week's Poems
White Bird Featherless (riddle)
Anon
11th February 1963
By Paul Farley
From: The Ice Age
Published by Picador
Balloons
By Sylvia Plath
From: Sylvia Plath, Collected Poems
Published by Faber
Morning song
By Sylvia Plath
From: Sylvia Plath, Collected Poems
Published by Faber
Night Feed
By Eavan Boland
From: Eavan Boland, New Collected Poems
Published by Carcanet
London Snow
By Robert Bridges
From: Robert Bridges’ Poetical Works
Published by OUP
Wuthering Heights
By Sylvia Plath
From: Sylvia Plath, Collected Poems
Published by Faber
Sympathy
By Emily Brontë
From: Selected Brontë Poems
Published by Basil Blackwell
Shall Earth no more inspire thee
By Emily Brontë
From: Selected Brontë Poems
Published by Basil Blackwell
Snow
By Jacob Polley
From: The Brink
Published by Picador Poetry
Robert Frost
By Mervyn Peake
From: Mervyn Peake : Selected Poems
Published by Faber
Poem for a Goodbye
By Norman MacCaig
From: Norman MacCaig : Collected Poems
Published by Chatto & Windus
Explicit Snow
By Norman MacCaig
From: Norman MacCaig : Collected Poems
Published by Chatto & Windus
Crossing the Water
By Sylvia Plath
From: Sylvia Plath, Collected Poems
Published by Faber
Winter Solstice
By Meg Peacocke
From: In Praise of Aunts
Published by Peterloo
She tells her love while half asleep
By Robert Graves
From: The Faber Book of Twentieth Century Verse
Published by Faber
After great pain, a formal feeling comes
By Emily Dickinson
From: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Published by Faber
Some, too fragile for winter winds
By Emily Dickinson
From: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Published by Faber
Broadcasts
- Sun 10 Feb 201316:30BBC Radio 4
- Sat 16 Feb 201323:30BBC Radio 4
