Europe

Gillian Clarke explains the importance of the Welsh language in Britain and reads Border.

Jacob Polley from Cumbria reads The North-South Divide

Michael Longley from Belfast reads All of These People

Jackie Anderson reads, To the Harbour

Kathleen Jamie reads Here lies our land, a poem about the Battle of Bannockburn

Janet Lees reads Resort, inspired by the image of a Punch and Judy stall on the beach.

Jacqueline Mezec reads her poem, An Islander Remembers the Sea

Joe Friggieri from Malta reads his poem, Departing.

Claire Angelidou reads her poem, The House.

The novelist and poet from Guernsey, Candy Neubert, reads the poem ‘privacy’.