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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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28 minutes

Last on

Tue 10 Jun 2025 16:00

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 16:00