Sophie Hannah
Sophie Hannah chooses favourites from amongst listener requests, including works by Rupert Brook, Wilfred Owen, Wendy Cope and Stevie Smith. Sophie also reads some of her own poems, including one asking where people go when they storm out...
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This Week's Poems
Being Boring
by Wendy Cope
From If I Don’t Know
Published by Faber and Faber
Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town
by e e cummings
from The Penguin Book of American Verse
Published by Penguin Poetry
The Storming
by Sophie Hannah
From Marrying the Ugly Millionaire: New and Collected Poems
Published by Carcanet
A Considerable Speck
by Robert Frost
From The Poetry of Robert Frost
Published by Jonathan Cape
Into my Heart an Air that Kills
by A E Housman
Taken from A. E. Housman - Collected Poems and Selected Prose
Published by Penguin
Sonnet II
by Edna St Vincent Millay
from Edna St Vincent Millay - Collected Poems
Published by Harper Perennial Modern Classics
The Soldier
by Rupert Brooke
From The Complete Poems of Rupert Brooke
Published by Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd
Arms and the Boy
by Wilfred Owen
From The Poems of Wilfred Owen, edited by Jon Stallworthy
Published by W. W. Norton and Company
On His Blindness
by John Milton
From Selected Poems: Milton
Published by Penguin Classics
There’s a Poem I Love
By Sophie Hannah
Unpublished
Byzantium
by W B Yeats
From The Poems of W. B. Yeats: A New Edition, edited by Richard J. Finneran
Published by Macmillan
Not Waving But Drowning
by Stevie Smith
From Stevie Smith - New Selected Poems
Published by New Directions
Broadcast
- Sun 16 Jan 202216:30BBC Radio 4
