Just One Poem: Jane Hirshfield - Burlap Sack

Download This time I talk about Jane Hirshfield's poem Burlap sack, includes authentic page turning noises! Read up a little on Jane here.

Just One Poem: Walt Whitman - When I Heard at the Close of Day

Download I discuss Walt Whitman's poem "When I Heard at the Close of Day". Thanks for Callie for the suggestion! Here is his wiki page.

Just one poem: CP Cavafy Ithica

Download I get philosophical about journeys this week, reading CP Cavafy's poem Ithica. You can read it in the original Greek or in translation here

Just One Poem: e.e. cummings - i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart)

Download Hats off to you, Mr e.e. cummings! here's the text on a soppy wedding site! Here is one of his other poems, Grasshopper (possibly not appropriate for a wedding reading)

Just One Poem: Jo Shapcott - Procedure

Download here Thank you for listening. Here are Candlestick Press and here is my friend Thom

Just One Poem: Sylvia Plath - Poppies in October

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 Here is the poem featured:

Poppies in October

Even the sun-clouds this morning cannot manage such skirts.
Nor the woman in the ambulance
Whose red heart blooms through her coat so astoundingly -- 

A gift, a love gift
Utterly unasked for
By a sky

Palely and flamily
Igniting its carbon monoxides, by eyes
Dulled to a halt under bowlers.

 O my God, what am I
That these late mouths should cry open
In a forest of frost, in a dawn of cornflowers.