Ben Okri
Poet and Booker prize winner Ben Okri joins Roger McGough to talk about his selection of poetry from the listener request database. Derek Walcott, Jackie Kay and WB Yeats all make an appearance, and the writer reads some of his own work. Producer Sally Heaven.
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This Week's Poems
Begin With a Leap
By Ben Okri
From Wild
Published by Rider
Extract from The Lovesong of J Alfred Prufrock
By T. S. Eliot
From Prufrock and Other Observations
Published by Faber & Faber
Extract from The Schooner Flight
By Derek Walcott
From Derek Walcott – Collected Poems 1948-1984
Published by Faber & Faber
Extract from Prayer for my Daughter
By W. B. Yeats
From The Collected Poems of W.B Yeats
Published by Palgrave
Pied Beauty
By Gerard Manley Hopkins
From The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Published by Oxford University Press
Egusi Soup
by Jackie Kay
From Fiere
Published by Picador
Elegy for Alto
by Christopher Okigbo
From Labyrinths
Published by Heinemann
More Fishes Than Stars
By Ben Okri
From Wild
Published by Rider
Broadcasts
- Sun 21 Apr 201920:00BBC Radio 4
- Sat 27 Apr 201923:30BBC Radio 4
