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Matt Harvey

Matt Harvey chooses poems by Ivor Cutler, Alice Oswald, ee cummings and Johnny Fluffypunk about slugs, trees and hearts. Adrian Mitchell, Brian Patten and Adrienne Rich also feature.

Producer Sally Heaven

28 minutes

Last on

Sat 19 Feb 2022 23:30

This Week's Poems


Barabadabada

By Ivor Cutler

From the album Jammy Smears

Label: Virgin Records

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Refugee Blues

By WH Auden

From As I Walked Out One Evening

Published by Faber & Faber

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The Wedding

By Alice Oswald

From The Thing in the Gap Stone Stile

Published by Faber and Faber

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Song

By Adrienne Rich

From The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems 1950-2001

Published by W. W. Norton & Company

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Put the Children by a Tree

By Jonny FluffypunkÌý

From Hot Poets – 12 Poems About Saving the World

Published by Liv Torc and Chris Redmond of Tongue Fu

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Slug

By Matt Harvey

From Where Earwigs Dare

Published by Green Books

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i carry your heart with me(i carry it in)

By ee cummings

From Complete Poems 1904-1962

Published by Liveright 1994

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Upon Julia’s Clothes

By Robert Herrick

Herrick: Everyman's Poetry

Published by Phoenix

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Beattie is Three

By Adrian Mitchell

From: Adrian Mitchell’s Greatest Hits

Published by Bloodaxe

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So Many Different Lengths of Time

By Brian Patten

From Armada by Brian Patten

Published by HarperCollins

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You’re It

By Liv Torc

From The Human Emergency

Published by Burning Eye



Broadcasts

  • Sun 13 Feb 2022 16:30
  • Sat 19 Feb 2022 23:30