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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.

30 minutes

Last on

Sat 28 Feb 2015 23:30

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Unpublished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
Presenter Roger McGough

Broadcasts

  • Sun 22 Feb 2015 16:30
  • Sat 28 Feb 2015 23:30