Gillian Clarke
Poet Gillian Clarke chooses from the Poetry Please database of listener requests. The former National Poet of Wales chooses poems from RS Thomas, Carol Ann Duffy and Dylan Thomas. Producer Sally Heaven.
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This Week's Poems
A Blackbird Singing
By RS Thomas
From Collected Poems 1945-1990
Published by Phoenix Press
He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
By W B Yeats
From The Collected Poems of W B Yeats
Published by Palgrave
Litton Mill
By Helen Mort
From The Shape of Every Box
Published by Tall Lighthouse
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
By Dylan Thomas
From Collected Poems 1934 – 1963
Published by Everyman
The Pattern
By Paula Meehan
From Mysteries of the Home
Published by Dedalus Press
Sunlight
By Seamus Heaney
From New Selected Poems, 1966-1987
Published by Faber & Faber
All Day It Has Rained
By Alun Lewis
From Anglo-Welsh Poetry, 1480–1980
Published by Poetry Wales Press
Futility
By Wilfred Owen
From The Poems of Wilfred Owen
Published by The Hogarth Press
Miracle on St David’s Day
By Gillian Clarke
From Selected Poems
Published by Picador
Broadcasts
- Sun 17 Feb 2019 16:30BBC Radio 4
- Sat 23 Feb 2019 23:30BBC Radio 4