Sabrina Mahfouz
Poet and playwright Sabrina Mahfouz brings us a selection of her favourite poems, from Wendy Cope to Raymond Antrobus, Matthew Arnold to Jay Bernard. Producer Becky Ripley.
Award-winning poet and playwright Sabrina Mahfouz brings us a selection of her favourite poems, from Wendy Cope to Raymond Antrobus, Matthew Arnold to Mary Ann Evans, aka George Elliott. Her selection is rounded off with a reading from her son, whose favourite poetry book is 'A is for Activist'. Producer Becky Ripley.
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This Week's Poems
Happy Days
By Sabrina Mahfouz
Unpublished
Kindness
By Naomi Shihab Nye
From The Words Under the Words – Selected Poems
Published by Eighth Mountain Press
The Perseverance
By Raymond Antrobus
From The Perseverance
Published by Penned in the Margins.
Kid Moth
By Jay Bernard
From https://poetrysociety.org.uk/poems/kid-moth/
Published by The Tall Lighthouse
Dover Beach
By Matthew Arnold
From The Oxford Book of Nineteenth-Century English Verse
Published by Oxford University Press
Rondeau Redouble
By Wendy Cope
From Two Cures for Love: Selected Poems 1979-2006
Published by Faber & Faber
Uber
By Anthony Anaxagorou
From After the Formalities
Published by Penned in the Margins
Count That Day Lost
By George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans)
From Poetry for Pleasure; the Hallmark Book of Poetry
Published by Doubleday
An extract from ‘A is for Activist’
By Innosanto Nagara
Published by Seven Stories Press
Broadcasts
- Sun 21 Jun 202016:30BBC Radio 4
- Sat 27 Jun 202023:30BBC Radio 4
