Pascale Petit
Roger McGough talks to French British poet Pascale Petit as she chooses her favourites from the poems requested by listeners.
Roger McGough talks to French British poet Pascale Petit as she chooses her favourites from the poems requested by listeners. Her choices include favourites from Keats and Gerard Manley Hopkins, an appreciation of 'invisible' nurses by Romalyn Ante, and pleas for peace and understanding from Warsan Shire and Moniza Alvi.
Produced for BBC Audio Bristol by Sally Heaven
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This Week's Poems
1. '‘The Horses’
By Edwin Muir
From: Collected Poems
Published by Faber and Faber
2. ‘I am so Happy. I am so Happy. I Loved my Life’
By Niall Campbell
From: The Island in the Sound
Published by Bloodaxe Books
3. ‘Windhover’
By Gerard Manley Hopkins
From: Poems and Prose
Published by Penguin Classics
4. ‘The Lammergeier Daughter’
By Pascale Petit
From: Beast
Published by Bloodaxe Books, 2025
5. ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ (extract)
By John Keats
From Selected Poems: Keats
Published by Penguin Classics
6. ‘Invisible Women’
By Romalyn Ante
From: Antiemetic for Homesickness
Published by Chatto & Windus, 2020
7. ‘Home’ (extract)
By Warsan Shire
From: Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice In her Head
Published by Chatto & Windus, 2022
8. ‘How the World Split in Two’
By Moniza Alvi
From: Split World
Published by Bloodaxe Books, 2008
9. ‘The Quality of Sprawl’
By Les Murray
From Learning Human
Published by Carcanet
Broadcast
- Tue 24 Jun 202516:00BBC Radio 4
