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Sinead Morrissey

Sinead Morrissey joins Roger McGough to share her favourite poems from listeners' requests, including poems by Anna Akhmatova, Les Murray, Emily Dickinson and Elisabeth Bishop.

Producer: Sarah Addezio.

30 minutes

Last on

Sat 10 Feb 201823:30

This Week's Poems

‘Voroznezh’

By Anna Akhmatova

Translated by Richard McKane

From Anna Akhmatova - Selected Poems

Published by Bloodaxe

Extract from ‘The Party Bazaar’

By Sinead Morrissey

From Parallax

Published by Carcanet Press Ltd

‘Maggie and Milly and Molly and May’

By E E Cummings

From E E Cummings – Complete Poems 1904 – 1962

Published by Liveright

‘A Step Away from Them’

By Frank O Hara

From Lunch Poems

Published by City Lights Books

‘An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow’

By Les Murray

From The Best 100 Poems of Les Murray

Published by Black inc an imprint of Schwartz Media Ltd

‘I started early…’

By Emily Dickinson

From The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Published by Faber & Faber

 ‘The Fish’

By Elizabeth Bishop

From Elizabeth Bishop, Complete Poems

Published by Chatto and Windus

‘Vanity Fair’

By Sinead Morrissey

From Through the Square Window

Published by Carcanet Press Ltd

‘The Send Off’

By Wilfred Owen

From The Poems of Wilfred Owen

Published by The Hogarth Press

Credits

RoleContributor
PresenterRoger McGough
Interviewed GuestSinead Morrissey
ProducerSarah Addezio

Broadcasts

  • Sun 4 Feb 201816:30
  • Sat 10 Feb 201823:30