Our earlier Poems of the Week are below
Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley read by Gavin Ewart
Naima by Kamau Brathwaite read by Valerie Bloom
Map of the New World : Archipelagoes by Derek Walcott read by John Glenday
Pane read by Anna Gilmore Heezen
A Portable Paradise by Roger Robinson read by Imtiaz Dharker
Delay by Elizabeth Jennings read by Roger McGough
Stars & Planets by Norman MacCaig read by Roger McGough
The Tyger by William Blake read by James Berry
Love by George Herbert read by Paula Meehan
Sumer is Icumen in read by Nii Ayikwei Parkes
Much Madness is Divinest Sense by Emily Dickinson read by George Szirtes
Listen to Sonnet 29 read by James Berry
The Very Leaves of the Acacia-Tree are London by Kathleen Raine read by Cicely Herbert
Spooner Goes Under read by Brian O’Connor
Guinep by Olive Senior read by Valerie Bloom
Love after Love by Derek Walcott read by Marjorie Lotfi
This Moment by Eavan Boland read by John Glenday
Like a Beacon by Grace Nichols read by Merle Collins
Ther is No Rose of Swych Virtu by Sujata Bhatt read by Marjorie Lotfi
The Sonnets by Michael Longley read by Ian Duhig
Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare read by John Hegley
Michael Longley RIP
Harmonica by Michael Longley read by Ian Duhig
Up in the Morning Early by Robert Burns read by Gerard Benson
A 14 Year Old Convalescent Cat in Winter read by Gavin Ewart



This is the Time to be Slow
Excerpt from For the Break-Up of a Relationship, from Benedictus (Europe) / To Bless the Space Between Us (US) by John O’Donohue
From Ecclesiastes 1. iii-vii, The King James Bible read by Nick Makoha
Western wind when wilt thou blow, Anon read by Gerard Benson
What Lips my Lips Have Kissed by Edna St Vincent Millay read by Fleur Adcock
I Sing of Change read by Niyi Osundare
Upwards by Raymond Antrobus with Evelyn Glennie
Fleur Adcock RIP
Dei Miracole read by Lemn Sissay
The Uncertainty of the Poet read by Wendy Cope
If I Could Tell You by W.H. Auden read by Cicely Herbert
Living by Denise Levertov read by Ruth Fainlight
Everything Changes read by Cicely Herbert
The Loch Ness Monster’s Song by Edwin Morgan read by Gerard Benson
Harmonica by Michael Longley read by Ian Duhig
Sumer is Icumen in read by Nii Ayikwei Parkes
Listen to By Yourself, Boy read by Nii Ayikwei Parkes
Listen to Hour read by Carol Ann Duffy
Listen to We Refugees read by Nii Ayikwei Parkes
Listen to A Glimpse read in Persian by Azita Ghahreman
Listen to A Glimpse read by Maura Dooley
Listen to The Railway Children read by Seamus Heaney
Listen to Still Life with Sea Pinks and High Tide read by Maura Dooley
Listen to Carving read by Imtiaz Dharker
Listen to Sometimes by Sheenagh Pugh read by George Szirtes
Listen to Paisley read by Jo Clement
Listen to Sonnet 29 read by James Berry
Poem of the Week April 13th
The Creel by Kathleen Jamie read by John Glenday
Listen to Valerie Bloom reading from The Song of Solomon
Listen to Ian Duhig reading Bridled Vows
Listen to Maura Dooley reading He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
Listen to Marjorie Lotfi reading Packing for America
Listen to Seni Seneviratne reading The Weight of the World