Jackie Kay
Jackie Kay joins Roger McGough to rifle through our listener requests for poems, picking favourites including W. B. Yeats, Roger Robinson and Ntozake Shange.
Roger McGough is joined in the studio by Jackie Kay, who rifles through listener requests to pick out some of her favourite poems.
They include well-loved classics, such as The Lake Isle of Innisfree by W. B. Yeats, alongside oft-requested poems by Roger Robinson and Norman MacCaig and poets new to Roger, such as Ntozake Shange.
Jackie Kay is the former Scottish Makar, and as well as being a poet is also a novelist, playwright and librettist. Her collections include Bantam, Adoption Papers, Trumpet, Other Lovers and her recent memoir, Red Dust Road.
Produced by Eliza Lomas for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Audio
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This Week's Poems
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
By WB YeatsΜύΜύ
From The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
Published by Palgrave
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Lochaline Stores
By Jackie Kay
From Bantam
Published by Picador
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A Portable Paradise
By Roger Robinson
From A Portable Paradise
Published by Peepal Tree Press
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Bocas: A Daughter’s Geography
By Ntozake Shange
From A Daughter's Geography
Published by St. Martin's
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Liason Co-Ordinator
By Tom Leonard
From Ghostie Men
Published by Galloping Dog Press
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1847
By Maura Dooley
From Sound Barrier – Poems 1982-2002
Published by Bloodaxe
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At The Cenotaph
By Siegfried Sassoon
From Collected Poems – Siegfried Sassoon
Published by Faber & Faber
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Sparrow
By Norman MacCaig
From Norman MacCaig – Collected Poems
Published by Chatto & Windus
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