5. Prayer by Carol Ann Duffy - A Friend to Tricia

The Poetry Exchange

In this episode of our podcast, you will hear Tricia talking about the poem that has been a friend to her: ’Prayer' by Carol Ann Duffy.We are delighted to feature 'Prayer' in this episode and would like to thank Carol Ann Duffy for granting us permission to use her poem in this way.Tricia visited The Poetry Exchange at The Poetry Library at Southbank Centre in August 2015. We’re very grateful to The Poetry Library for hosting The Poetry Exchange. Do visit them for further inspiration!http://www.poetrylibrary.org.ukTricia is in conversation with The Poetry Exchange team members, Fiona Lesley Bennett and Alistair Snell.'Prayer' is read by Fiona Lesley Bennett.‘Prayer’ from Mean Time by Carol Ann Duffy. Published by Picador, 2013. Copyright © Carol Ann Duffy. Reproduced by permission of the author c/o Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd., 20 Powis Mews, London W 11 1JN*****Prayer by Carol Ann DuffySome days, although we cannot pray, a prayerutters itself. So, a woman will lifther head from the sieve of her hands and stareat the minims sung by a tree, a sudden gift.Some nights, although we are faithless, the truthenters our hearts, that small familiar pain;then a man will stand stock-still, hearing his youthin the distant Latin chanting of a train.Pray for us now. Grade 1 piano scalesconsole the lodger looking out acrossa Midlands town. Then dusk, and someone callsa child's name as though they named their loss.Darkness outside. Inside, the radio's prayer -Rockall. Malin. Dogger. Finisterre.

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