Amina Atiq
More listener requests curated by a guest poet.
Roger talks to the Yemeni born poet Amina Atiq. Growing up in Liverpool she often found it hard to be accepted and a feeling of not belonging is central to her poetry. Amina chooses favourite poems selected from the requests sent in by listeners to include work by DH Lawrence, Danez Smith, Zaffar Kunial and Anne Stevenson.
Producer: Maggie Ayre
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This Week's Poems
Belong
By Amina Atiq
Part of BBC Words First 2019
Published by Words First / Wrecking Ball Press
The Piano
By D. H Lawrence
From The Complete Poems of D.H. Lawrence
Published by Wordsworth Editions
The Thing is
By Ellen Bass
From ‘Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems’
Published by Grayson Books
Broken Dreams
By W.B Yeats
From The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
Published by Wordsworth Editions
Telemachus
By Ocean Vuong
From ‘Night Sky with Exit Wounds’
Published by Cape Poetry
A Poem for a Daughter
By Anne Stevenson
From ‘Poems 1955 – 2005’
Published by Bloodaxe
Audio courtesy of The Poetry Archive
Extract from ‘Summer, Somewhere’
By Danez Smith
From ‘Don’t Call Us Dead’
Published by Graywolf Press
Thirteen
By Caleb Femi
From ‘Poor’
Published by Penguin
The Word
By Zaffar Kunial
From ‘Us’
Published by Faber
Audio courtesy of The T. S. Eliot Prize
When My Mother Danced With My Hair
By Amina Atiq
From the pamphlet ‘Just Beyond Reach’
Published by Sutton Manor
Broadcasts
- Sun 8 May 202216:30BBC Radio 4
- Sat 14 May 202223:30BBC Radio 4
