Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson joins Roger McGough, sharing a seasonal selection of listener requested poems, including the words of Carol Ann Duffy, Stevie Smith and Anne Sexton.
Jeanette Winterson joins Roger McGough, sharing a seasonal selection of listener requested poems. Together they explore light, love and religion, through the words of Carol Ann Duffy, Stevie Smith, Anne Sexton and many more.
Jeanette Winterson is an award-winning novelist, essayist and memoirist. She is best known for her semi-autobiographical novel 'Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit', which she wrote at the age of 23, inspired by her strict Pentecostal Evangelist upbringing in Accrington, Lancashire.
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This Week's Poems
Sunlight on the Garden
By Louis MacNeice
From The Collected Poems of Louis MacNeice
Published by Faber and Faber
Journey of the Magi
By T.S. Eliot
From T.S. Eliot – Collected Poems 1909-1962
Published by Faber & Faber
The Light Gatherer
By Carol Ann Duffy
From Feminine Gospels
Published by Picador
An Arundel Tomb
By Philip Larkin
From Philip Larkin - Collected Poems
Published by Faber & Faber
Atlas
By UA Fanthorpe
From Collected Poems 1978-2003
Published by Peterloo Poets
The Bright Field
By RS Thomas
From Laboratories of the Spirit
Published by Macmillan
I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day
By Gerard Manley Hopkins
From the Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Published by Oxford University Press
The Galloping Cat
By Stevie Smith
From Collected Poems
Published by New Directions
The Fury of Sunsets
By Anne Sexton
From The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton
Published by Mariner Books
Broadcasts
- Sun 17 Dec 202316:30BBC Radio 4
- Christmas Eve 202300:15BBC Radio 4
