
Malika Booker
Roger McGough talks to Malika Booker as she chooses her favourite poems. Her selection includes work by Warsan Shire, Sharon Olds, and Jean 'Binta' Breeze. Producer Sally Heaven.
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This Week's Poems
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Bird
By Liz Berry
From Black Country
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
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The Strait-jackets
By Pascale Petit
From The Zoo Father
Published by Seren
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Belarusian I
By Valzhyna Mort
From Factory of Tears
Published by Copper Canyon Press
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ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ (extract from)
By Warsan Shire
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Megan Married Herself
By Caroline Bird
From In These Days of Prohibition
Published by Carcanet
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Stag’s Leap
By Sharon Olds
From Stag’s Leap
Published by Knopf
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The Arrival of Bright Eye (extract from)
By Jean 'Binta' Breeze
From Jean 'Binta' Breeze - Third World Girl: Selected Poems with Live Readings DVD
Published by Bloodaxe
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Lean on the Water
by Kim Hyesoon
Translated from the Korean by Don Mee Choi
From Autobiography of Death
Published by New Directions Publishing
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The Little Miracles
By Malika Booker
Unpublished
ÌýBroadcasts
- Sun 20 Oct 2019 16:30ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4
- Sat 26 Oct 2019 23:30ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4