Hannah Hodgson
Hannah Hodgson selects poems that sing, including those reflecting on disability and by disabled poets. We hear from Raymond Antrobus, Andrew McMillan and Dorothy Wordsworth.
Hannah Hodgson has a life limiting illness and writes remarkable poetry about her experience. She has selected a range of poems that sing, including those reflecting on disability and by disabled poets. We hear from Raymond Antrobus, Amy Acre, Andrew McMillan and Dorothy Wordsworth as well as a little known poem by WB Yeats.
Producer Sally Heaven
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This Week's Poems
‘Sonnet I’
By Jamie Hale
From ‘Shield’
Published by Verve Poetry Press
‘There Are No Secrets Here’
By Greg Gilbert
From The Laureate’s Choice pamphlet
Published by Smith|Doorstop
Extract from Dorothy Wordsworth’s diaries – Christmas Day and Boxing Day 1801
By Dorothy Wordsworth
‘Jack-in-the-box’
By Rosamund Taylor
First published in Butcher's Dog poetry magazine and appears in Rosamund's first collection ‘In Her Jaws’ which is forthcoming from Banshee Press
‘Wader’
By Meredi Ortega
Published via Butchers Dog Magazine
‘Your Chest Aches Before You Stop Breathing’
By Hannah Hodgson
From 163 Days
Published by Seren
‘Death’
By W.B. Yeats
From The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
Published by Wordsworth Editions
Extract from ‘Knotweed’
By Andrew McMillan
From Pandemonium
Published by Jonathan Cape
‘Born Drunk’
By Kuli Kohli
From A Wonder Woman
Published by Offa's Press
‘T Minus Zero’
By Amy Acre
First published by The White Review
‘Happy Birthday Moon’
By Raymond Antrobus
From The Perseverance
Published by Penned in the Margins
Broadcasts
- Sun 15 May 202216:30BBC Radio 4
- Sat 21 May 202223:30BBC Radio 4
