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Jason Allen-Paisant

Jason Allen-Paisant joins Roger McGough, sharing a selection of listener requested poems, including the words of Caleb Femi, Ted Hughes and Elizabeth Bishop.

Jason Allen-Paisant joins Roger McGough, sharing a selection of listener requested poems.

They’ll discuss classics by Ted Hughes and William Wordsworth, alongside new classics by Caleb Femi and Kei Miller. Jason also shares a poem from his award-winning second collection.

Jason Allen-Paisant is a Jamaican poet and scholar. His collection ‘Self-Portrait as Othello’ won the 2023 Forward Prize for Best Collection and is currently shortlisted for the 2023 T. S. Eliot Prize.

Produced by Alice McKee for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Audio

28 minutes

Last on

Sun 17 Dec 2023 00:15

This Week's Poems


Dis Poetry

By Benjamin Zephaniah

From City Psalms

Published by Bloodaxe


Self-Portrait as Othello II

By Jason Allen-Paisant

From Self-Portrait as Othello

Published by Carcanet

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Daffoldils

By William Wordsworth

From William Wordsworth: Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney

Published by Faber & Faber

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Extracts from The Cartographer Tries to Map a Way to Zion

By Kei Miller

Published by Carcanet

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Burnt Norton

By T. S Eliot

From Four Quartets

Published by Faber & Faber

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Wing

By Karen McCarthy Woolf

From An Aviary of Small Birds

Published by Oxford Poets

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Wind

By Ted Hughes

From New Selected Poems 1957-1994

Published by Faber & Faber

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One Art

By Elizabeth Bishop

From Elizabeth Bishop - The Complete Poems 1926-1979

Published by Farrar Straus & Giroux

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On the Other Side of the Street

By Caleb Femi

From 'Poor'

Published by Penguin

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Broadcasts

  • Sun 10 Dec 2023 16:30
  • Sun 17 Dec 2023 00:15