Kenneth Steven
Kenneth Steven makes his selection of poetry from listener requests. His choices reflect his love of the natural world and what he calls 'wildscape' - something he writes about in his own poetry. He was born in Perthshire and now lives on the west coast of Scotland.
Producer: Maggie Ayre
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This Week's Poems
The Peace of Wild Things
By Wendell Berry
From Wendell Berry - New Collected Poems
Published by Counterpoint
The Birth of the Foal
by Kenneth Steven
From the collection Wild Horses, and in Kenneth Steven’s volume of selected poems, Island
Both published by Saint Andrew Press
As Kingfishers Catch Fire
By Gerard Manley Hopkins
From Gerard Manley Hopkins: Poems and Prose
Published by Penguin Classics
Seahorses
By Myra Schneider
From Lifting The Sky
Published by Ward Wood Publishing
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
By WB Yeats
From The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
Published by Wordsworth Editions
Sonnet 29
By Elizabeth Barrett-Browning
From Poetry by English Women; Elizabethan to Victorian
Published by Continuum
An Apple Gathering
By Christina Rossetti
From The Complete Poems of Christina Rossetti. Vol. 1
Published by Louisiana State University Press
Fern Hill
By Dylan Thomas
The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas: The Centenary Edition
Published by Published by Weidenfeld and Nicolson
Winter in the Fens
By John Clare
From John Clare: Major Works
Published by Oxford University Press
Broadcasts
- Sun 10 Jan 202116:30BBC Radio 4
- Sat 16 Jan 202123:30BBC Radio 4
