Kim Moore
The award-winning Cumbrian poet include makes a selection from listener requests including a Thomas Hardy favourite and new discoveries by Abeer Ameer, William Gee and Caleb Femi.
Kim, the award-winning poet who lives and works in Cumbria, chooses her favourites from listener requests, including an old favourite from Thomas Hardy and new discoveries from Abeer Ameer, William Gee and Caleb Femi. She's also very honest about why she began writing poetry...
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This Week's Poems
Reunion
by Claudine Toutongi
From Smoothie
Published by Carcanet
A Story About Water
by Gboyega Odubanjo
From the pamphlet ‘While I Yet Live’
Published by Bad Betty Press
Horse Heart
by Liz Berry
From The Republic of Motherhood
Published by Chatto & Windus
The Voice
by Thomas Hardy
From The Collected Poems of Thomas Hardy
Published by Wordsworth Editions
I Lost My Innocence in a Hotel Room and Nobody Handed It In
by Hannah Hodgson
Taken from https://poems.poetrysociety.org.uk/poets/hannah-hodgson/
Atlantis, A Lost Sonnet
By Eavan Boland
From Domestic Violence
Published by W. W. Norton & Company
Tomorrow My Brother Died
by William Gee
From Rheuma
Published by Bad Betty Press
At the Dinner Party
By Amy Levy
Taken from https://poets.org/poem/dinner-party
Yet, he remembers Baghdad (After Edward Thomas)
By Abeer Ameer
Taken from https://www.acumen-poetry.co.uk/abeer-ameer/?doing_wp_cron=1608121617.0777909755706787109375
All The Men I Never Married
by Kim Moore
From the forthcoming book-length sequence All the Men I Never Married.
Thirteen
By Caleb Femi
From Poor
Published by Penguin
Broadcasts
- Sun 20 Dec 202016:30BBC Radio 4
- Boxing Day 202023:30BBC Radio 4
