Matt Harvey
Matt Harvey chooses poems by Ivor Cutler, Alice Oswald, ee cummings and Johnny Fluffypunk about slugs, trees and hearts. Adrian Mitchell, Brian Patten and Adrienne Rich also feature.
Producer Sally Heaven
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This Week's Poems
Barabadabada
By Ivor Cutler
From the album Jammy Smears
Label: Virgin Records
Refugee Blues
By WH Auden
From As I Walked Out One Evening
Published by Faber & Faber
The Wedding
By Alice Oswald
From The Thing in the Gap Stone Stile
Published by Faber and Faber
Song
By Adrienne Rich
From The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems 1950-2001
Published by W. W. Norton & Company
Put the Children by a Tree
By Jonny Fluffypunk
From Hot Poets – 12 Poems About Saving the World
Published by Liv Torc and Chris Redmond of Tongue Fu
Slug
By Matt Harvey
From Where Earwigs Dare
Published by Green Books
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in)
By ee cummings
From Complete Poems 1904-1962
Published by Liveright 1994
Upon Julia’s Clothes
By Robert Herrick
Herrick: Everyman's Poetry
Published by Phoenix
Beattie is Three
By Adrian Mitchell
From: Adrian Mitchell’s Greatest Hits
Published by Bloodaxe
So Many Different Lengths of Time
By Brian Patten
From Armada by Brian Patten
Published by HarperCollins
You’re It
By Liv Torc
From The Human Emergency
Published by Burning Eye
Broadcasts
- Sun 13 Feb 202216:30BBC Radio 4
- Sat 19 Feb 202223:30BBC Radio 4
