Danez Smith
Danez' choices include British favourites Liz Berry and Carol Ann Duffy, the ever popular Thom Gunn and Mark Doty, Andrea Gibson, a poet who always makes them weep, and even a bit of rap from Kendrick Lamar.
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This Week's Poems
Conversation with Fantasy Mother
By Mary Jean Chan
From 'A Hurry of English'
Published by Oxford Brookes University
The Discovery of the Pacific
By Thom Gunn
From Collected Poems
Published by Faber & Faber
A Green Crab’s Shell
By Mark Doty
From Atlantis
Published by HarperCollins
Recording courtesy of The Poetry Society
Bowbowler
By Liz Berry
A Free the Word poem, specially written for National Poetry Day 2017.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1MSCcMrCbYb5LQwjVbMhZjq/free-the-word-bobowler
love poem
From Bluff
By Danez Smith
Published by Chatto and Windus
How Much a Dollar Cost?
By Kendrick Lamar
Label: Aftermath
Extract from Living Proof
By Andrea Gibson
Label: Button Poetry
Audio courtesy of Button Poetry
‘On Love’
from The Prophet
By Khalil Gibran
Published by Penguin Classics
The Lovers
By Carol Ann Duffy
From Rapture
Published by Picador
Broadcast
- Tue 19 Nov 202416:00BBC Radio 4
