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Sophie Hannah

Sophie Hannah chooses favourites from amongst listener requests, including works by Rupert Brook, Wilfred Owen, Wendy Cope and Stevie Smith. Sophie also reads some of her own poems, including one asking where people go when they storm out...
Producer Sally Heaven

28 minutes

Last on

Sun 16 Jan 2022 16:30

This Week's Poems

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Being Boring

by Wendy Cope

From If I Don’t Know

Published by Faber and Faber

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Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town

by e e cummings

from The Penguin Book of American Verse

Published by Penguin Poetry

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The Storming

by Sophie Hannah

From Marrying the Ugly Millionaire: New and Collected Poems

Published by Carcanet

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A Considerable Speck

by Robert Frost

From The Poetry of Robert Frost

Published by Jonathan Cape

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Into my Heart an Air that Kills

by A E Housman

Taken from A. E. Housman - Collected Poems and Selected Prose

Published by Penguin

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Sonnet II

by Edna St Vincent Millay

from Edna St Vincent Millay - Collected Poems

Published by Harper Perennial Modern Classics

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The Soldier

by Rupert Brooke

From The Complete Poems of Rupert Brooke

Published by Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd

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Arms and the Boy

by Wilfred Owen

From The Poems of Wilfred Owen, edited by Jon Stallworthy

Published by W. W. Norton and Company

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On His Blindness

by John Milton

From Selected Poems: Milton

Published by Penguin Classics

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There’s a Poem I Love

By Sophie Hannah

Unpublished

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Byzantium

by W B Yeats

From The Poems of W. B. Yeats: A New Edition, edited by Richard J. Finneran

Published by Macmillan

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Not Waving But Drowning

by Stevie Smith

From Stevie Smith - New Selected Poems

Published by New Directions

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  • Sun 16 Jan 2022 16:30