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Poetry Please - Caroline Bird

Daljit Nagra selects: Poetry Please - Caroline Bird who shares poems from listeners' requests. With Roger McGough. From 2019.

Poet Daljit Nagra revisits the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ's poetry archive and selects Poetry Please - Caroline Bird.

Roger McGough is joined by the poet Caroline Bird, who shares a selection of her favourite poems from the Poetry Please archive of listener requests.

Her choices include poems by Selima Hill, Ada Limon, Tomas Transtromer, Luke Kennard, Carolyn Forche and Terrance Hayes.

Caroline Bird is a poet and playwright. She has five collections of poetry published by Carcanet.

Her most recent collection, In These Days of Prohibition, was shortlisted for the 2017 TS Eliot Prize and The Ted Hughes Award. A two time winner of the Foyles Young Poets Award, her first collection Looking Through Letterboxes was published in 2002 when she was 15. She won a major Eric Gregory Award in 2002 and was shortlisted for the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize in 2001 and the Dylan Thomas Prize in 2008 and 2010.

She was one of the five official poets at the 2012 London Olympics. She is currently working on her sixth poetry collection.

Producer: Mair Bosworth

First broadcast on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 in 2019.

* Plus Daljit reads a poem from his Poetry Extra Book of the Month: The Roots Belong To You - a recently published anthology of 11- 17 year old international poetry winners from the Poetry Society.

30 minutes

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