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Women Poets

Roger McGough presents a selection of poetry written by women including Charlotte Mew, Wendy Cope and Kathleen Jamie. Maya Angelou reads her own work in a recording from the archives. Other readers are Lucy Black and Fiona Shaw. Producer Sally Heaven.

30 minutes

Last on

Sat 12 Mar 201623:30

This Week's Poems

Now I become myself

by May Sarton

Taken from http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/now-i-become-myself/

Phenomenal Woman

By Maya Angelou

From Maya Angelou - The Complete Collected Poems

Published by Virago

The Creel

by Kathleen Jamie

Taken from https://thisteacherslife.wordpress.com/2011/11/24/the-creel/

Names

By Wendy Cope

From Two Cures for Love

Published by Faber and Faber

Storm Warnings

By Adrienne Rich

From The Fact of a Doorframe – Poems Selected and New 1950-1984

Published by Norton

Dreamwood

By Adrienne Rich

Taken from http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/244130

The Coat

by Vicki Feaver

From Close Relatives

Published by Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd

Rain After Drought

By Mary Morison Webster

From http://nimnod.org/poetry/others/mmwebster

The Train

Mary Elizabeth Coleridge

Taken from http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-train-18/

Hatred

By Wislawa Szymborska

Translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh

From Wislawa Szymborska – Poems New and Collected 1957-1997

Published by Faber and Faber

May 1915

By Charlotte Mew

From Charlotte Mew – Collected Poems

Published by Gerald Duckworth and Co Ltd

June 1915

By Charlotte Mew

From Charlotte Mew – Collected Poems

Published by Gerald Duckworth and Co Ltd

Courage

By Anne Sexton

From The Complete Poems of Anne Sexton

Published by Houghton Mifflin

When I Shall Die

By Olive Fraser

Sent in by requester

Stargazer

By Jo Shapcott

From Of Mutability

Published by Faber and Faber

Hello

By Sheenagh Pugh

Taken from Sheenagh Pugh – Selected Poems

Published by Seren Books

Home

By Elaine Feinstein

From Elaine Feinstein – Collected Poems and Translations

Published by Carcanet

Enough for Me

by Fadwa Tuqan

Taken from http://www.angelfire.com/rant/truthaboutpalestine/enough.html

Italia, Io Ti Saluto!

By Christina Rossetti

From Christina Rossetti – Poems and Prose

Published by Everyman

Bird

By Myra Schneider

From Circling the Core

Published by Enitharmon

Credits

RoleContributor
PresenterRoger McGough
ReaderMaya Angelou
ReaderLucy Black
ReaderFiona Shaw
ProducerSally Heaven

Broadcasts

  • Sun 6 Mar 201616:30
  • Sat 12 Mar 201623:30