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Rachel Long

Rachel Long joins Roger McGough to make a selection of listener requests, from Kei Miller to Sarah Howe, Emily Dickinson to Gboyega Odubanjo.

The poet Rachel Long joins Roger McGough to make a selection of listener requests, from Kei Miller to Sarah Howe, Emily Dickinson to Gboyega Odubanjo.

Rachel Long's debut poetry collection, My Darling from the Lions, was published in 2020. It was shortlisted for the Rathbones Folio Prize, the Costa Poetry Award, the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, the Jhalak Prize and was a TIME book of the year and a Best Poetry Book by the Guardian.

Produced by Eliza Lomas for Â鶹Éç Audio.

28 minutes

Last on

Sun 23 Jul 2023 00:15

This Week's Poems


Dreamer

By Jean ‘Binta’ Breeze

From Third World Girl

Published by Bloodaxe

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The Law Concerning Mermaids

By Kei Miller

From A Light Song of Light

Published by Carcanet

Archive Recorded by the British Library at the Power of Caribbean Poetry – Word and Sound conference in Homerton College, Cambridge, 20–22 September 2012. The entire recording is available on the British Library Sounds Website

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after great pain, a formal feeling comes

By Emily Dickinson

From Emily Dickinson: Poems Selected by Ted Hughes

Published by Faber & Faber

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Thanksgiving

By Rachel Long

From My Darling from the Lions

Published by Picador

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Tame

By Sarah Howe Ìý

From Loop of Jade

Published by Chatto & Windus

Recording courtesy of The Poetry Archive

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Poems (With Drums)

By Gboyega Odubanjo

From While I Yet Live

Published by Bad Betty Press

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New Year’s Day

By Kim Addonizio

From Tell Me

Published by BOA Editions

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Hope

By Clara Ann Thompson

From the ‘Wayside’, anthologised in ‘Women of the Harlem Renaissance’

Published by Macmillan Collector’s Library

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Broadcasts

  • Sun 16 Jul 2023 16:30
  • Sun 23 Jul 2023 00:15