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Nikita Gill

Nikita Gill chooses poems of renewal from the listener requests. Including work by Ada Limon and Patience Agbabi.

Producer Sally Heaven

28 minutes

Last on

Sat 7 Jan 2023 23:30

This Week's Poems

Hope is a Thing With Feathers

By Emily Dickinson

From The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Published by Faber & Faber

What is Worth Knowing

Sujata Bhatt

From Brunizem

Published by Carcanet

When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

By Chen Chen

From When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities

Published by Bloodaxe Books Ltd

The Dolls House

By Patience Agbabi

From The Forward Book of Poetry 2014

Published by Forward Worldwide in association with Faber & Faber

Recording 漏 The Poetry Archive, used by permission of The Poetry Archive

Failing and Flying

By Jack Gilbert

From Refusing Heaven

Published by Alfred A. Knopf / Random House

The Raincoat

By Ada Limon

From The Carrying

Published by Corsair

When You Hate Yourself for Revisiting Old Wounds

by Nikita Gill

From These Are the Words

Published by Macmillan

The Leader

By Roger McGough

From Sky in the Pie

Published by Puffin

The Thing Is

by Ellen Bass

From Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems

Grayson Books, 2017

The Orange by Wendy Cope

From Serious Concerns

Published by Faber & Faber

Broadcasts

  • New Year's Day 2023 16:30
  • Sat 7 Jan 2023 23:30