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Raymond Antrobus

Raymond Antrobus, recent winner of the Ted Hughes prize from the Poetry Society is Roger McGough's guest. He makes his selection of poems from his own and others work.

Producer: Maggie Ayre

28 minutes

Last on

Sat 18 May 2019 23:30

This Week's Poems

The Perseverance

By Raymond Antrobus

Taken from “The Perseverance”

Published by Penned in the Margins.

London

By William Blake

Extract from Songs of Experience, taken from “William Blake – The Complete Poems”

Published by Penguin

Colonization in Reverse

By Louise Bennett

Taken from

On a Portrait of a Deaf Man

By Sir John Betjeman

Taken from “Collected Poems: New Edition”

Published by John Murray Publishers

Hostile Environment

By Keith Jarrett

Unpublished

Self Portrait In Front of a Mirror

By Will Harris

Originally published in “Rialto”, Issue 86

One Art

By Elizabeth Bishop

Taken from “Complete Poems”

Published by Chatto and Windus

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night

By Dylan Thomas

Taken from “Collected Poems 1934 – 1963”

Published by Everyman

Broadcasts

  • Sun 12 May 2019 16:30
  • Sat 18 May 2019 23:30