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Guardian Books poetry podcast

Today's finest contemporary poets read from their own favourite poets' work
  • Poets Edwin Morgan (left) and Jackie Kay

    Guardian Books poetry podcast: Jackie Kay reads Edwin Morgan

    Jackie Kay rounds off our series of poets choosing their favourite poems with verses from Edwin Morgan's Love and a Life

  • Yannis Mitsos and David Harsent

    Guardian Books poetry podcast: David Harsent reads Yannis Ritsos

    David Harsent reads three short poems by the Greek poet Yannis Ritsos, in his own translations

  • John Burnside and Maxine Kumin

    Guardian Books poetry podcast: John Burnside reads Maxine Kumin

    Today John Burnside chooses The Retrieval System by Maxine Kumin, a look at doubling mirrored in its intricate rhyme scheme

  • Patrick Kavanagh and Paul Farley

    Guardian Books poetry podcast: Paul Farley reads Patrick Kavanagh

    Our series of poets reading favourite works continues with Paul Farley reading 'Innocence' by Patrick Kavanagh

  • Poets Imtiaz Dharker, Arun Kolatkar, Louis MacNeice and Elizabeth Bishop

    Guardian Books poetry podcast: Imtiaz Dharker reads Elizabeth Bishop, Louis MacNeice and Arun Kolatkar

    Imtiaz Dharker launches our second week of poets choosing their favourite poems with a dazzling trio: One Art by Elizabeth Bishop, Meeting Point by Louis MacNeice and Yeshwant Rao by Arun Kolatkar

  • Alice Oswald

    Guardian Books poetry podcast: Alice Oswald reads There Was a Man of Double Deed

    Alice Oswald rounds off the first week in our series of poets choosing their favourite poem with a reading of a nursery rhyme, There Was a Man of Double Deed

  • Judith Wright (left) and Fleur Adcock

    Guardian Books Poetry podcast: Fleur Adcock reads Judith Wright

    The latest podcast in our series of poets choosing their favourite poem finds Fleur Adcock reading Judith Wright's Request To A Year

  • Michael Symmons Roberts (left) and John Donne

    Guardian Books poetry podcast: Michael Symmons Roberts reads John Donne

    Michael Symmons Roberts continues our series of poets choosing their favourite poems with a reading of John Donne's Elegy XIX: To His Mistress Going To Bed

  • Fiona Sampson (left) and George Herbert

    Guardian Books poetry podcast: Fiona Sampson reads George Herbert

    Fiona Sampson continues our series of poets choosing their favourite lines with two poems from George Herbert, Love and Heaven

  • Ted Hughes (left) and Simon Armitage

    Guardian Books poetry podcast: Simon Armitage reads Ted Hughes

    One Yorkshire poet reads another as Simon Armitage continues our series of poets choosing their favourite verses with Ted Hughes's Full Moon and Little Frieda

  • Poets David Jones (left) and Robin Robertson

    Guardian Books poetry podcast: Robin Robertson reads David Jones

    Our series of poets choosing their favourite poem continues with Robin Robertson reading from David Jones's In Parenthesis

  • Jo Shapcott and Emily Dickinson

    Guardian Books poetry podcast: Jo Shapcott reads Emily Dickinson

    Jo Shapcott kicks off a new series of poets reading from their favourite work by another author. Shapcott picks Emily Dickinson

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