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Lavinia Greenlaw

Suffolk-based poet Lavinia Greenlaw chooses her selection of listeners' poetry requests.

Lavinia Greenlaw is the author of The Importance of Music To Girls as well as most recently Some Answers Without Questions. Her latest poetry collection The Built Moment was published in 2019.
She sifts through the poetry requests and chooses amongst others work by William Blake, Raymond Antrobus and Denise Levertov.

28 minutes

Last on

Sat 28 Jan 2023 23:30

This Week's Poems

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A narrow fellow in the grass

By Emily Dickinson

From Emily Dickinson: Poems Selected by Ted Hughes

Published by Faber & Faber

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‘My Father cannot stop’ from The Sea is an Edge and an Ending

By Lavina Greenlaw

From The Built Moment

Published by Faber & Faber

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Animals

By Frank O’Hara

From Selected Poems of Frank O'Hara

Published by Random House

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Extract from Fourth Person Singular

By Nuar Alsadir

Published by Liverpool University Press

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AlterityÌý

By Kayo Chingonyi

From Kumukanda

Published by Chatto & Windus

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The Breathing

By Denise Levertov

From: Poems: 1960-1967

Published by New Directions

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In Memory of M.B

(Here is my gift..)

By Anna Akhmatova

Translated by Stanley Kunitz with Max Hayward

From Anna Akhmatova – Selected Poems

Published by Harvill

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‘Four days, three nights’ from The Sea is an Edge and an Ending

By Lavina Greenlaw

From The Built Moment

Published by Faber & Faber

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A Misremembered Lyric

By Denise Riley

From: Denise Riley: Selected Poems

Published by Picador

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By Sir Philip Sidney


Broadcasts

  • Sun 22 Jan 2023 16:30
  • Sat 28 Jan 2023 23:30