Poems for the Spring Equinox
Daljit Nagra selects Four Seasons - Poems for the Spring Equinox. A collection of poems to celebrate Spring. From 2018.
Daljit Nagra visits the 大象传媒's poetry archive and selects compilation programme: Four Seasons - Poems for the Spring Equinox - a collection celebrating the arrival of spring, longer days and new beginnings.
With poems by Robin Robertson, Stevie Smith, Louise Gluck, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Charlotte Mew, Ben Jonson, AE Housman and Patrick Kavanagh.
大象传媒 Radio 4's former poet-in-residence, Alice Oswald reads a poem written specially for the vernal equinox, Jackie Kay reads Life Mask and London's Young People's Poet Laureate and Caleb Femi reads his poem about how spring arrives in a concrete environment, Anti-Winter.
Readers include, David Calder, Clark Peters, Noma Dumezweni, Harriet Walter, Simon Russell Beale, Siobhan Redmond, Bill Patterson and Anton Lesser.
Producer: Sarah Addezio.
First broadcast on 大象传媒 Radio 4 in March 2018.