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Roger McGough introduces selections of poetry on various themes, chosen by listeners.

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Poetry Please: Arlo Parks

18/07/2021

Arlo Parks

BBC Radio 4 - Poetry Please, Arlo Parks

The award-winning singer selects poems requested by listeners.

The award-winning singer Arlo Parks selects poems requested by listeners, with Roger McGough.

The award-winning singer and poet Arlo Parks shares a selection of her favourite poems from Poetry Please's listener requests, including Leonard Cohen, Sylvia Plath and Hieu Minh Nguyen. Arlo reads one of her own poems and explains why she's determined to share how powerful poetry can be.

Producer: Caitlin Hobbs for BBC Audio in Bristol

Mirror by Sylvia Plath
From Sylvia Plath Collected Poems
Published by Faber and Faber

The Tyger by William Blake
From The New Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1950
Published by Oxford

Dimensions of Love by Leonard Cohen
From The Flame: Leonard Cohen
Published by Canongate Books; Main edition

Staying Quiet by Hieu Minh Nguyen 
From Poetry Magazine 
Published by Coffee House Press

Stem of Wallflower / Hair of Doormat by Amy Key
From Isn't Forever 
Published by Bloodaxe Books

I Wanna Be Yours by John Cooper Clarke
From: johncooperclarke.com 

Two Travelling Together by Hiromi Ito 
From Killing Kanoko / Wild Grass On The Riverbank
Published by Tilted Axis Press 

In Memory of Mr B by Anna Akhmatova
From Poems of Akhmatova
Published by Little, Brown & Co. Granted by permission of Darhansoff & Verrill Literary Agency

Collapsed in Sunbeams by Arlo Parks
From her album Collapsed in Sunbeams
Produced by Transgressive Records 

The Great Advantage Of Being Alive by EE Cummings 
From E. E. Cummings: Complete Poems, 1904-1962
Published by Liveright

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