Lavinia Greenlaw
Suffolk-based poet Lavinia Greenlaw chooses her selection of listeners' poetry requests.
Lavinia Greenlaw is the author of The Importance of Music To Girls as well as most recently Some Answers Without Questions. Her latest poetry collection The Built Moment was published in 2019.
She sifts through the poetry requests and chooses amongst others work by William Blake, Raymond Antrobus and Denise Levertov.
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This Week's Poems
A narrow fellow in the grass
By Emily Dickinson
From Emily Dickinson: Poems Selected by Ted Hughes
Published by Faber & Faber
‘My Father cannot stop’ from The Sea is an Edge and an Ending
By Lavina Greenlaw
From The Built Moment
Published by Faber & Faber
Animals
By Frank O’Hara
From Selected Poems of Frank O'Hara
Published by Random House
Extract from Fourth Person Singular
By Nuar Alsadir
Published by Liverpool University Press
Alterity
By Kayo Chingonyi
From Kumukanda
Published by Chatto & Windus
The Breathing
By Denise Levertov
From: Poems: 1960-1967
Published by New Directions
In Memory of M.B
(Here is my gift..)
By Anna Akhmatova
Translated by Stanley Kunitz with Max Hayward
From Anna Akhmatova – Selected Poems
Published by Harvill
‘Four days, three nights’ from The Sea is an Edge and an Ending
By Lavina Greenlaw
From The Built Moment
Published by Faber & Faber
A Misremembered Lyric
By Denise Riley
From: Denise Riley: Selected Poems
Published by Picador
Song From Arcadia: ‘My true love hath my heart’
By Sir Philip Sidney
Broadcasts
- Sun 22 Jan 202316:30BBC Radio 4
- Sat 28 Jan 202323:30BBC Radio 4
