Carol Ann Duffy and John Sampson In Earth Prayers, Carol Ann selects nature poetry from across the ages, from John Clare to Lucille Clifton and Kathleen Jamie, that reflects the fragility of our ...

Originally This autobiographical poem sees Duffy considering and exploring the sense of isolation and confusion felt when as a child her parents moved from the Gorbals in Glasgow to England.

From Seamus Heaney, to Carol Ann Duffy, Radio 4’s Shipping Forecast ... At 12:03 on Thursday 8th October, the poet Murray Lachlan Young read out his own poetic reimagining of this iconic verse.