大象传媒

The award-winning singer and poet Arlo Parks shares a selection of her favourite poems from Poetry Please's listener requests, including Leonard Cohen, Sylvia Plath and Hieu Minh Nguyen. Arlo reads one of her own poems and explains why she's determined to share how powerful poetry can be.

Producer: Caitlin Hobbs for 大象传媒 Audio in Bristol

Mirror by Sylvia Plath
From Sylvia Plath Collected Poems
Published by Faber and Faber

The Tyger by William Blake
From The New Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1950
Published by Oxford

Dimensions of Love by Leonard Cohen
From The Flame: Leonard Cohen
Published by Canongate Books; Main edition

Staying Quiet by Hieu Minh Nguyen
From Poetry Magazine
Published by Coffee House Press

Stem of Wallflower / Hair of Doormat by Amy Key
From Isn't Forever
Published by Bloodaxe Books

I Wanna Be Yours by John Cooper Clarke
From: johncooperclarke.com

Two Travelling Together by Hiromi Ito
From Killing Kanoko / Wild Grass On The Riverbank
Published by Tilted Axis Press

In Memory of Mr B by Anna Akhmatova
From Poems of Akhmatova
Published by Little, Brown & Co. Granted by permission of Darhansoff & Verrill Literary Agency

Collapsed in Sunbeams by Arlo Parks
From her album Collapsed in Sunbeams
Produced by Transgressive Records

The Great Advantage Of Being Alive by EE Cummings
From E. E. Cummings: Complete Poems, 1904-1962
Published by Liveright

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