Bhanu Kapil
Bhanu Kapil won the TS Eliot Prize for her collection How To Wash A Heart. She chats to Roger about poetry and about the poems she loves. Her selection includes work by Sir John Betjeman, Raymond Antrobus, Alycia Pirmohamed and William Blake.
Producer: Maggie Ayre
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This Week's Poems
How to Wash a Heart
by Bhanu Kapil
From How to Wash a Heart
Published by Pavilion Poetry
Kindness
By Naomi Shihab Nye
From Tender Spot: Selected Poems
Published by Bloodaxe Books Ltd
The Tyger
By William Blake
From Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Published by Penguin
Endearments
by Alycia Pirmohamed
From Another Way to Split Water
Published by Polygon
Extract from Savitri
By Sri Aurobindo
Published by Lotus Press
The Metropolitan Railway
By John Betjeman
From John Betjeman Collected Poems
Published by John Murray
What My Mother (a Poet) Might Say (II)
By Mary Jean Chan
From Flèche
Published by Faber & Faber
To Sweeten Bitter
By Raymond Antrobus
From To Sweeten Bitter
Published by Out-Spoken Press
From ‘Empty words’
By Zaffar Kunial
From Us
Published by Faber & Faber
Broadcasts
- Sun 29 Jan 202316:30BBC Radio 4
- Sat 4 Feb 202323:30BBC Radio 4
