麻豆约拍

Poet Dajlit Nagra revisits the 麻豆约拍's poetry archive and selects Rites of Passage - Changing Schools featuring poems from children leaving primary.

Ian McMillan meets people who turn to poetry for inspiration or solace at key moments in their lives. Changing Schools. McMillan visits Year 6 at Hoyland Springwood Primary School in Barnsley, Yorkshire, where he encourages the children to write a poem about going up to "big" school.

Producer Liz Leonard

First broadcast on 麻豆约拍 Radio 4 in 2004.