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Amina Atiq

More listener requests curated by a guest poet.

Roger talks to the Yemeni born poet Amina Atiq. Growing up in Liverpool she often found it hard to be accepted and a feeling of not belonging is central to her poetry. Amina chooses favourite poems selected from the requests sent in by listeners to include work by DH Lawrence, Danez Smith, Zaffar Kunial and Anne Stevenson.

Producer: Maggie Ayre

28 minutes

Last on

Sat 14 May 2022 23:30

This Week's Poems


Belong

By Amina Atiq

Part of Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Words First 2019

Published by Words First / Wrecking Ball Press

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The Piano

By D. H Lawrence

From The Complete Poems of D.H. Lawrence

Published by Wordsworth Editions

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The Thing is

By Ellen Bass

From ‘Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems’

Published by Grayson Books

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Broken Dreams

By W.B YeatsÌý

From The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats

Published by Wordsworth Editions

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Telemachus

By Ocean Vuong

From ‘Night Sky with Exit Wounds’

Published by Cape Poetry

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A Poem for a Daughter

By Anne StevensonÌý

From ‘Poems 1955 – 2005’

Published by Bloodaxe

Audio courtesy of The Poetry Archive

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Extract from ‘Summer, Somewhere’

By Danez Smith

From ‘Don’t Call Us Dead’

Published by Graywolf Press

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Thirteen

By Caleb Femi

From ‘Poor’

Published by Penguin

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The Word

By Zaffar Kunial

From ‘Us’

Published by Faber

Audio courtesy of The T. S. Eliot Prize

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When My Mother Danced With My Hair

By Amina Atiq

From the pamphlet ‘Just Beyond Reach’Ìý

Published by Sutton Manor

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Broadcasts

  • Sun 8 May 2022 16:30
  • Sat 14 May 2022 23:30