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POETRY SEASON 2009  :  POEMS FOR TODAY

POEMS FOR TODAY
41 contemporary poems in 41 days

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Listen again  to each poem after broadcast until May 2010.



Jun 30 - Wendy Cope: A Rehearsal
Jun 29 - Tony Harrison: Cornet and Cartridge

Jun 28 - Vicki Feaver: Music and God
Jun 27 - Sean Street: Cliff Fall
Jun 26 - W.N. Herbert: Sistine
Jun 25 - Michael Rosen: the Balloon
Jun 24  - Sarah Maguire: The Combustible Yalis of the Late Ottoman Empire
Jun 23  - Robin Robertson: Diving 
Jun 22 - Leontia Flynn: There’s Birds in my Story

Jun 21 - Kei Miller: The Longest Song
Jun 20 - Tom Paulin: A Question
Jun 19 - Luke Wright: Loughborough
Jun 18 - John Burnside: Loved and Lost
Jun 17 - Michael Longley: The Leveret
Jun 16 - Gwyneth Lewis: Love Song
Jun 15 - Jo Shapcott: Procedure

Jun 14 - Bert Biscoe: The Sermon of the Mount
Jun 13 - Katrina Porteous: Shanky
Jun 12 - Imtiaz Dharker: Speech Balloon
Jun 11 - Laura Dockrill: My pain au chocolat, my friend
Jun 10 - Simon Armitage: The Delegates
Jun 9 - Robert Crawford: Air Miles
Jun 8 - Carol Ann Duffy: Premonitions

Jun 7 - Gillian Clarke: Not
Jun 6 - Peter Porter: A Toccatina of Galuppi's
Jun 5 - Jen Hadfield: Paternoster
Jun 4 - Dannie Abse: A Doctor’s Love Song
Jun 3 - David Harsent: The Garden in Sunlight
Jun 2 - Jackie Kay: Fiere
Jun 1 - Daljit Nagra: Tippoo Sultan’s Incredible White-Man-Eating Tiger-Toy Machine

May 31 - Owen Sheers: The Carriage Horses
May 30 - Mario Petrucci: How does fragrance of sleep
May 29 - Clive James: Signing Ceremony
May 28 - Maura Dooley: The Lark Ascending
May 27 - Paul Farley: Humidor
May 26- Fred d’Aguiar: Caribbean
May 25 - Kathleen Jamie: The Beach

May 24 - Alison Brackenbury: The Button Factory in Bologna
May 23 - Roddy Lumsden: Bloom
May 22- Alice Oswald: Written sometime between the month of May and the month of May not
May 21 - Andrew Motion: The Grave of Rupert Brooke

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    A celebration  of the breadth of contemporary poetry in the UK.

    From May 21 until 30 June 2009, Radio 3 broadcasts 41 poems in Breakfast, one a day over a six week period.
    The Poems for Today readings are repeated on weekday afternoons in Afternoon on 3.

    Each of the poems has been written or published within the previous 12 months and the series reflects a range of diverse UK voices.

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