Archive

Clips of these poets, all previous guests of CB1 going back to 2009, were featured on the home page in the weeks and months of lockdown during the COVID pandemic. Click on a name to watch them reading again : you will be taken in a new tab or window to the location in YouTube which houses the clip.

Patience Agbabi : ‘Word‘

Tara Bergin : ‘The True Story of Eleanor Marx in Ten Parts‘

Emily Berry : ‘Devil Music‘ 

John Clegg : ‘The Sun Box‘ 

Peter Daniels : ‘The Rainbow ‘ 

Carrie Etter : ‘Magnum Opus‘ 

Martin Figura : ‘Bear‘

Anne-Marie Fyfe : ‘Elevator in the Dark‘

John Greening : ‘Sibelius‘ 

Kirsten Irving : Two poems

Helen Ivory : ‘Moon Landing‘ 

Gwyneth Lewis : ‘My Cosmology‘ 

Roddy Lumsden : ‘Kissing Edwin Morgan‘ 

John Lyons : ‘Tell Me Mama‘

André Mangeot : ‘Euston Road‘ 

Hollie McNish : ‘Embarrassed‘ 

Helen Mort : ‘Miss Heath‘ 

Mario Petrucci : ‘Last Wish‘ 

Clare Pollard : Four poems 

Sheenagh Pugh : ‘Webcam Sonnet 4: Now‘ 

George Szirtes : ‘A Picture of my Parents with their First Television‘ 

David Swann : ‘The Last Days of the Lancashire Boggarts‘ 

Claudine Toutoungi : Three poems 

Mark Waldron : ‘Meanwhile, Trees‘ 

Ben Wilkinson : ‘The River Don‘