Hanan Issa
Roger McGough is joined by the National Poet of Wales to make a selection from your poetry requests.
Roger McGough is joined by the National Poet of Wales, Hanan Issa, to make a selection of listeners' poetry requests. Her choices include poems by Menna Elfyn, Imtiaz Dharker, Zeina Hashem Beck, Philip Larkin, Robert Hayden and Jack Gilbert.
Hanan is a Welsh-Iraqi poet, filmmaker and artist from Cardiff. Her recent works include her poetry collection My Body Can House Two Hearts (Burning Eye Books, 2019) and her contributions to Welsh (Plural): Essays on the Future of Wales (Repeater Books, 2022) and The Mab (Unbound, 2022), a retelling of the Mabinogi stories for children. She has recently edited an anthology of dragon poems for children, 'And I Hear Dragons'. Her winning monologue 鈥榃ith Her Back Straight鈥� was performed at the Bush Theatre as part of the Hijabi Monologues. She was also part of the writers room for Channel 4鈥檚 We Are Lady Parts alongside its creator, Nida Manzoor.
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This Week's Poems
Brooch
By Menna Elfyn
(translated from the Welsh by Elin ap Hywel)
From Perfect Blemish: New & Selected Poems 1995-2007
Published by Bloodaxe
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Prayer
By Imtiaz Dharker
From Purdah and Other Poems
Published by Bloodaxe
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Talking In Bed
By Philip Larkin
From The Whitsun Weddings
Published by Faber & Faber
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ABCD鈥檚 of Equal Opportunities
By Hanan Issa
Unpublished
Commissioned as part of Hanan Issa鈥檚 role as National Poet of Wales
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Savage Sonnet
By Zeina Hashem Beck
From Lithub Website/Magazine
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Those Winter Sundays
By Robert Hayden
From The Collected Poems of Robert Hayden
Published by Liveright Publishing Corporation
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Watching Him Eat Strawberries
By Hanan Issa
From My Body Can House Two Hearts
Published by Burning Eye Books
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The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart
By Jack Gilbert
From Transgressions: Selected Poems
Published by Bloodaxe Books
With permission of Alfred A. Knopf
Performed by Elizabeth Marvel and directed by Matthew Thompson. The film was commissioned by the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation and co-produced by Eric Felipe-Barkin, Amanda Glassman, and Bernard Schwartz.
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- Tue 18 Jun 2024 16:00大象传媒 Radio 4
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