Mona Arshi
Mona Arshi had a previous life as a human rights lawyer before she became a poet. She joins Roger McGough to make he selection of listeners' poem requests.
Mona Arshi was awarded the Forward Prize in 2015 for her debut poetry collection Small Hands. She's a former human rights lawyer and soon to be novelist. Her poetry selection includes work by Adrienne Rich, Caleb Femi and Gerard Manley Hopkins whose poem God's Grandeur she assesses from a 21st century perspective.
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This Week's Poems
Something
By Mona Arshi
From Dear Big Gods
Published by Liverpool University Press
Song
By Adrienne Rich
From The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems 1950-2001
Published by W. W. Norton & Company
Extract from A Part Song
By Denise Riley
From Say Something Back
Published by Picador
Sympathy
By Paul Laurence Dunbar
From The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar
Published by Dodd, Mead and Company
God's Grandeur
by Gerard Manley Hopkins
From Gerard Manley Hopkins: Poems and Prose
Published by Penguin Classics
The Hug
By Thom Gunn
From The Man with Night Sweats
Published by Faber & Faber
Coping
By Caleb Femi
From Poor
Published by Penguin
Afterwardness
By Mimi Khalvati
From Afterwardness
Published by Carcanet
A Letter
By Amrita Pritam
Translated from the Punjabi by D.H. Tracy & Mohan Tracy
Taken from https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/54735/a-letter-56d2356ca0306
(Minor liberties with wording have been taken relative to the print version)
To Sleep
By John Keats
From Selected Poems: Keats
Published by Penguin Classics
Insomniac
by Mona Arshi
From Small Hands
Published by Pavilion Poetry
Broadcasts
- Sun 3 Jan 202116:30BBC Radio 4
- Sat 9 Jan 202123:30BBC Radio 4
