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Bhanu Kapil

Bhanu Kapil won the TS Eliot Prize for her collection How To Wash A Heart. She chats to Roger about poetry and about the poems she loves. Her selection includes work by Sir John Betjeman, Raymond Antrobus, Alycia Pirmohamed and William Blake.

Producer: Maggie Ayre

28 minutes

Last on

Sat 4 Feb 2023 23:30

This Week's Poems


How to Wash a Heart

by Bhanu Kapil

From How to Wash a Heart

Published by Pavilion Poetry

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Kindness

By Naomi Shihab Nye

From Tender Spot: Selected Poems

Published by Bloodaxe Books Ltd

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The Tyger

By William Blake

From Songs of Innocence and of Experience

Published by Penguin

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Endearments

by Alycia Pirmohamed

From Another Way to Split Water

Published by ‎Polygon

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Extract from Savitri

By Sri Aurobindo

Published by Lotus Press

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The Metropolitan Railway

By John Betjeman

From John Betjeman Collected Poems

Published by John Murray

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What My Mother (a Poet) Might Say (II)

By Mary Jean Chan

From Flèche

Published by Faber & Faber

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To Sweeten Bitter

By Raymond Antrobus

From To Sweeten Bitter

Published by Out-Spoken Press

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From ‘Empty words’

By Zaffar Kunial

From Us

Published by Faber & Faber


Broadcasts

  • Sun 29 Jan 2023 16:30
  • Sat 4 Feb 2023 23:30