Jason Allen-Paisant
Jason Allen-Paisant joins Roger McGough, sharing a selection of listener requested poems, including the words of Caleb Femi, Ted Hughes and Elizabeth Bishop.
Jason Allen-Paisant joins Roger McGough, sharing a selection of listener requested poems.
They’ll discuss classics by Ted Hughes and William Wordsworth, alongside new classics by Caleb Femi and Kei Miller. Jason also shares a poem from his award-winning second collection.
Jason Allen-Paisant is a Jamaican poet and scholar. His collection ‘Self-Portrait as Othello’ won the 2023 Forward Prize for Best Collection and is currently shortlisted for the 2023 T. S. Eliot Prize.
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This Week's Poems
Dis Poetry
By Benjamin Zephaniah
From City Psalms
Published by Bloodaxe
Self-Portrait as Othello II
By Jason Allen-Paisant
From Self-Portrait as Othello
Published by Carcanet
Daffoldils
By William Wordsworth
From William Wordsworth: Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney
Published by Faber & Faber
Extracts from The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion
By Kei Miller
Published by Carcanet
Burnt Norton
By T. S Eliot
From Four Quartets
Published by Faber & Faber
Wing
By Karen McCarthy Woolf
From An Aviary of Small Birds
Published by Oxford Poets
Wind
By Ted Hughes
From New Selected Poems 1957-1994
Published by Faber & Faber
One Art
By Elizabeth Bishop
From Elizabeth Bishop - The Complete Poems 1926-1979
Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux
On the Other Side of the Street
By Caleb Femi
From 'Poor'
Published by Penguin
Broadcasts
- Sun 10 Dec 202316:30BBC Radio 4
- Sun 17 Dec 202300:15BBC Radio 4
