Pascale Petit
Roger McGough talks to French British poet Pascale Petit as she chooses her favourites from the poems requested by listeners.
Roger McGough talks to French British poet Pascale Petit as she chooses her favourites from the poems requested by listeners. Her choices include favourites from Keats and Gerard Manley Hopkins, an appreciation of 'invisible' nurses by Romalyn Ante, and pleas for peace and understanding from Warsan Shire and Moniza Alvi.
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This Week's Poems
1.Ìý Ìý'‘The Horses’Ìý
Ìý Ìý Ìý ÌýBy Edwin Muir
From: Collected Poems
Published by Faber and Faber
2.ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý ‘I am so Happy. I am so Happy. I Loved my Life’Ìý
Ìý Ìý Ìý ÌýBy Niall Campbell
From: The Island in the Sound
Published by Bloodaxe Books
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3.ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý ‘Windhover’Ìý
Ìý Ìý Ìý ÌýByÌýGerard Manley Hopkins
From: Poems and Prose
Published by Penguin Classics
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4.ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý ‘The Lammergeier Daughter’Ìý
Ìý Ìý Ìý ÌýBy Pascale Petit
From:ÌýBeast
Published by Bloodaxe Books, 2025
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5.ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ (extract)
Ìý Ìý Ìý ÌýBy John Keats
From Selected Poems: Keats
Published by Penguin Classics
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6.ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý ‘Invisible Women’Ìý
Ìý Ìý Ìý ÌýBy Romalyn Ante
From:ÌýAntiemetic for ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½sickness Ìý
Published by Chatto & Windus, 2020
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7.ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý ‘ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½â€™ (extract)
Ìý Ìý Ìý ÌýBy Warsan Shire
From:ÌýBless the Daughter Raised by a Voice In her Head
Published by Chatto & Windus, 2022
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8.ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý ‘How the World Split in Two’Ìý
Ìý Ìý Ìý ÌýBy Moniza Alvi
From: Split World
Published by Bloodaxe Books, 2008
9.ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý ‘The Quality of Sprawl’Ìý
Ìý Ìý Ìý ÌýBy Les Murray
From Learning Human
Published by Carcanet
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- Tue 24 Jun 2025 16:00ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4