
Karen McCarthy Woolf
Karen McCarthy Woolf, the award winning poet of Jamaican-British heritage joins Roger McGough to make her selection of listeners' poems.
Producer: Maggie Ayre
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This Week's Poems
An Aviary of Small Birds
By Karen McCarthy Woolf
From An Aviary of Small Birds
Published by Oxford Poets
Her Silent Wake
By Malika Booker
From Unwritten: Caribbean Poems After the First World War
Published by Nine Arches Press
Delivery Room
By Mona Arshi
From Dear Big Gods
Published by Pavilion
The Registrar’s Office
By Karen McCarthy Woolf
From An Aviary of Small Birds
Published by Oxford Poets
Reasons for Leaving ѿý
By Belinda Zhawi
Speculations About I (74 lines)
By Toi Derricote
From “I”: New and Selected Poems
Copyright 2019
Aired by permission of University of Pittsburgh Press
Recording thanks to Poetry Foundation
Extract from It Turned Red
By Amy Key & Rebecca Perry
From The Scores
Scilla
By Louise Glück
From The Wild Iris
Published by Carcanet Press Ltd
Fisherman’s Song
By Kayo Chingonyi
From Kumukanda
Published by Chatto & Windus
Outside
By Karen McCarthy Woolf
From Seasonal Disturbances
Published by Carcanet Press Ltd
Broadcasts
- Sun 26 May 2019 16:30ѿý Radio 4
- Sat 1 Jun 2019 23:30ѿý Radio 4