Roger Robinson
Award-winning poet and musician Roger Robinson brings us a selection of his favourite poems from our listener requests, from Caleb Femi to Malika Booker, Robert Frost to Linton Kwesi Johnson. Producer Becky Ripley.
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This Week's Poems
Grace
By Roger Robinson
From A Portable Paradise
Published by Peepal Tree Press
Fam
By Caleb Femi
Taken from https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05hdf99
Eurofighter Typhoon
By Fiona Benson
From Vertigo & Ghost
Published by Cape Poetry
My Mother’s Blues
By Malika Booker
From Pepper Seed
Published by Peepal Tree Press
Stone
By Nick Makoha
From Out of Bounds: British Black and Asian Poets
Published by Bloodaxe
Dread Beat an’ Blood
By Linton Kwesi Johnson
From Dread Beat an’ Blood
Label: Frontline
America
By Claude McKay
From Liberator
Published by The Library of America
Stopping by Woods On a Snowy Evening
By Robert Frost
From The Poetry of Robert Frost
Published by Jonathan Cape
Mid-Air
By Caroline Bird
From The Air Year
Published by Carcanet Press
Gift
By Czeslaw Milosz
From New & Collected Poems 1931-2001
Published by Penguin
Broadcasts
- Sun 14 Jun 202016:30BBC Radio 4
- Sat 20 Jun 202023:30BBC Radio 4
