Rachel Long
Rachel Long joins Roger McGough to make a selection of listener requests, from Kei Miller to Sarah Howe, Emily Dickinson to Gboyega Odubanjo.
The poet Rachel Long joins Roger McGough to make a selection of listener requests, from Kei Miller to Sarah Howe, Emily Dickinson to Gboyega Odubanjo.
Rachel Long's debut poetry collection, My Darling from the Lions, was published in 2020. It was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize, the Costa Poetry Award, the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Jhalak Prize and was a TIME book of the year and a Best Poetry Book by the Guardian.
Produced by Eliza Lomas for 麻豆社 Audio.
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This Week's Poems
Dreamer
By Jean 鈥楤inta鈥� Breeze
From Third World Girl
Published by Bloodaxe
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The Law Concerning Mermaids
By Kei Miller
From A Light Song of Light
Published by Carcanet
Archive Recorded by the British Library at the Power of Caribbean Poetry 鈥� Word and Sound conference in Homerton College, Cambridge, 20鈥�22 September 2012. The entire recording is available on the British Library Sounds Website
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after great pain, a formal feeling comes
By Emily Dickinson
From Emily Dickinson: Poems Selected by Ted Hughes
Published by Faber & Faber
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Thanksgiving
By Rachel Long
From My Darling from the Lions
Published by Picador
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Tame
By Sarah Howe 听
From Loop of Jade
Published by Chatto & Windus
Recording courtesy of The Poetry Archive
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Poems (With Drums)
By Gboyega Odubanjo
From While I Yet Live
Published by Bad Betty Press
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New Year鈥檚 Day
By Kim Addonizio
From Tell Me
Published by BOA Editions
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Hope
By Clara Ann Thompson
From the 鈥榃ayside鈥�, anthologised in 鈥榃omen of the Harlem Renaissance鈥�
Published by Macmillan Collector鈥檚 Library
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