Jacob Polley
Roger McGough talks to the award-winning Cumbrian poet Jacob Polley and hears his choices of listeners' requests, including poems read by Terrance Hayes and Natalie Diaz.
Roger McGough talks to the award-winning Cumbrian poet, Jacob Polley (Material Properties, Jackself, The Havocs) and hears his choices from our listeners' request database, including poems read by Terrance Hayes and Natalie Diaz, and Eavan Boland's moving 'Quarantine'.
Producer for ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Audio Bristol: Sally Heaven
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This Week's Poems
After Apple-Picking
By Robert Frost
From The Poetry of Robert Frost
Published by Jonathan Cape
Carp poem
By Terrance Hayes
From Lighthead: Poems
Published by Penguin
Recording courtesy ofÌýHoCoPoLitSo
Haunts
By Michael Donaghy
From Conjure
Published by Picador
Quarantine
By Eavan Boland
From New Collected Poems by Eavan Boland.
Published by W.W. Norton
Boy at the Window
By Richard Wilbur
From Richard Wilbur – New and Collected Poems
Published by Faber & Faber
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Still-Life
By Elizabeth Daryush
From The Last Man and Other Verses
Published by Carcanet Press Limited
The Witch
By Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
Courtesy of the Poetry ArchiveÌý
Abecedarian Requiring Further Examination of Anglikan Seraphym Subjugation of a Wild Indian Rezervation
ByÌýNatalie Diaz
From When My Brother Was an Aztec
Published by Copper Canyon Press.
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Langley Lane
By Jacob Polley
From The Havocs
Published by Picador
Smallgirl
By Vangile Gantsgo
From Red Cotton
Published by Imphepho Press
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Broadcast
- Tue 10 Jun 2025 16:00ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4