Rachel Long
Rachel Long joins Roger McGough to make a selection of listener requests, from Kei Miller to Sarah Howe, Emily Dickinson to Gboyega Odubanjo.
The poet Rachel Long joins Roger McGough to make a selection of listener requests, from Kei Miller to Sarah Howe, Emily Dickinson to Gboyega Odubanjo.
Rachel Long's debut poetry collection, My Darling from the Lions, was published in 2020. It was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize, the Costa Poetry Award, the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Jhalak Prize and was a TIME book of the year and a Best Poetry Book by the Guardian.
Produced by Eliza Lomas for BBC Audio.
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This Week's Poems
Dreamer
By Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze
From Third World Girl
Published by Bloodaxe
The Law Concerning Mermaids
By Kei Miller
From A Light Song of Light
Published by Carcanet
Archive Recorded by the British Library at the Power of Caribbean Poetry – Word and Sound conference in Homerton College, Cambridge, 20–22 September 2012. The entire recording is available on the British Library Sounds Website here
after great pain, a formal feeling comes
By Emily Dickinson
From Emily Dickinson: Poems Selected by Ted Hughes
Published by Faber & Faber
Thanksgiving
By Rachel Long
From My Darling from the Lions
Published by Picador
Tame
By Sarah Howe
From Loop of Jade
Published by Chatto & Windus
Recording courtesy of The Poetry Archive
Poems (With Drums)
By Gboyega Odubanjo
From While I Yet Live
Published by Bad Betty Press
New Year’s Day
By Kim Addonizio
From Tell Me
Published by BOA Editions
Hope
By Clara Ann Thompson
From the ‘Wayside’, anthologised in ‘Women of the Harlem Renaissance’
Published by Macmillan Collector’s Library
Broadcasts
- Sun 16 Jul 202316:30BBC Radio 4
- Sun 23 Jul 202300:15BBC Radio 4
