
Teenagers
Roger McGough presents poetry by, for and about, teenagers including works by Thomas Chatterton, Adrian Mitchell, Wendy Cope, Imtiaz Dharker and Foyle Young Poets winner Ila Colley.
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This Week's Poems
The Force that through the green fuse drives the flower
By Dylan Thomas
From Dylan Thomas -The Poems
Published by Dent & Sons 1971
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O Captain my Captain
By Walt Whitman
From Selected Poems
Published by Dover Publications 1991
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Mother, any distance greater than a single span
By Simon Armitage
From Book of Matches
Publised by Faber & Faber
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Walking Away
By C. Day Lewis
From C.Day Lewis Selected Poems,
Published by Enitharmon Press 2004
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She Pops ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½
By Cal Clothier
Unpublished
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Outgrown
By Penelope Shuttle
From Unsent
Published byÌý Bloodaxe 2012
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A Puppy Called Puberty
By Adrian Mitchell
From Blue Coffee
Published by Bloodaxe 1996
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The Concerned Adolescent
By Wendy Cope
From Serious Concerns
Published byÌý Faber & Faber 1992
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Extract from A Balade of Charitie
By Thomas Chatterton
From Chatterton’s Poetical Works
Published by The Aldine Edition of The British Poets
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New Vibrations
By Ila Colley
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Father and Son I & II
By John Thompson
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Extract from A Shropshire Lad
By AE Housman
Published by Hesperus 2008
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Odi et Amo
By Catullus
From Catullus The Complete Poems
Published by Oxford paperbacks 2008
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Salome
By Carol Anne Duffy
From The World’s Wife
Published by Picador 2010
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Blessing
By Imtiaz Dharker
From Modern Women Poets
Published by Bloodaxe 2005
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Credit
Role | Contributor |
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Presenter | Roger McGough |
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