Pascale Petit
Roger McGough talks to French British poet Pascale Petit as she chooses her favourites from the poems requested by listeners.
Roger McGough talks to French British poet Pascale Petit as she chooses her favourites from the poems requested by listeners. Her choices include favourites from Keats and Gerard Manley Hopkins, an appreciation of 'invisible' nurses by Romalyn Ante, and pleas for peace and understanding from Warsan Shire and Moniza Alvi.
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This Week's Poems
1.听 听'鈥楾he Horses鈥櫶�
听 听 听 听By Edwin Muir
From: Collected Poems
Published by Faber and Faber
2.听听听听听 鈥業 am so Happy. I am so Happy. I Loved my Life鈥櫶�
听 听 听 听By Niall Campbell
From: The Island in the Sound
Published by Bloodaxe Books
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3.听听听听听 鈥榃indhover鈥櫶�
听 听 听 听By听Gerard Manley Hopkins
From: Poems and Prose
Published by Penguin Classics
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4.听听听听听 鈥楾he Lammergeier Daughter鈥櫶�
听 听 听 听By Pascale Petit
From:听Beast
Published by Bloodaxe Books, 2025
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5.听听听听听 鈥極de to a Nightingale鈥� (extract)
听 听 听 听By John Keats
From Selected Poems: Keats
Published by Penguin Classics
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6.听听听听听 鈥業nvisible Women鈥櫶�
听 听 听 听By Romalyn Ante
From:听Antiemetic for Homesickness 听
Published by Chatto & Windus, 2020
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7.听听听听听 鈥楬ome鈥� (extract)
听 听 听 听By Warsan Shire
From:听Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice In her Head
Published by Chatto & Windus, 2022
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8.听听听听听 鈥楬ow the World Split in Two鈥櫶�
听 听 听 听By Moniza Alvi
From: Split World
Published by Bloodaxe Books, 2008
9.听听听听听 鈥楾he Quality of Sprawl鈥櫶�
听 听 听 听By Les Murray
From Learning Human
Published by Carcanet
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