Rommi Smith
Poet, playwright and librettist Rommi Smith chooses work by Linton Kwesi Johnson, Marilyn Hacker, Don Paterson and others, and performs her own work, Song 2.
Producer Sally Heaven
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This Week's Poems
Song 2: Sanctuary
By Rommi Smith
From Forever?
Commissioned by AG250
Prayer
By Carol Ann Duffy
From Carol Ann Duffy – Selected Poems
Pub: Penguin
Bone Railroad
By Adam Lowe
From Patterflash
Published by Peepal Tree Press
Dusk July
By Marilyn Hacker
From the Carcanet collected words entitled: Essays on Departure
The Welcome
By Imtiaz Dharker
From Radiance
To be published by Bloodaxe in 2024
Tithonus: 46 Minutes in the Life of the Dawn (extract)
By Alice Oswald
Published by The Letter Press
I Pull Myself Through Tight Spaces Through the Twists
By Jason Allen-Paisant
From Self-Portrait As Othello
Published by Carcanet
Two Trees
By Don Paterson
From Rain
By Faber & Faber
Sonny’s Lettah
By Linton Kwesi Johnson
From Mi Revalueshanary Fren
Pub: Penguin
Broadcasts
- Sun 2 Jul 202316:30BBC Radio 4 FM
- Sun 9 Jul 202300:15BBC Radio 4
