Wounds and Scars
Roger McGough presents a selection of poetry requests on the theme of wounds and scars. Including poems specially recorded for the programme by Hollie McNish.
Roger McGough presents a selection of poetry requests on the theme of wounds and scars, both literal and metaphorical. Including poems specially recorded for the programme by Hollie McNish, work by Siegfried Sassoon and Rumi, and an archive recording of Juliet Stevenson reading Edna St Vincent Millay's Time Does Not Bring Relief. Producer Sally Heaven.
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The Scars
by Jon Glover
From To the Niagara Frontier 鈥� Poems New and Selected
Published by Carcanet
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Scars, by John Cassidy
From Night Cries
Published by Bloodaxe
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The Time Around Scars
by Michael Ondaatje听
Taken from
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The Scar
by Charles Tomlinson
From Charles Tomlinson 鈥� Collected Poems
Published by Oxford University Press
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Where Scars Come From
by William Harmon
From One Long Poem
Published by Louisiana State University Press
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You
By Hollie McNish
From Nobody Told Me: Poetry and Parenthood
Published by Blackfriars
Performed by Hollie McNish
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Marks Out of Ten
by Hollie McNish
From Nobody Told Me: Poetry and Parenthood
Published by Blackfriars
Performed by Hollie McNish
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Life鈥檚 Scars
by Ella Wheeler-Wilcox
From The Best Loved Poems of the American People
Published by Doubleday
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The Wound
by Ruth Stone听
From Simplicity
Published by Paris Press
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Extract from Christabel
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
From Samuel Taylor Coleridge 鈥� Poems
Published by Everyman
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Then, Time Does Not Bring Relief
by Edna St Vincent Millay
From
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All Because I loved you
by听Olu Oguibe听
Taken from
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Walking Wounded, by Vernon Scannell
From Of Love and War 鈥� New and Selected Poems
Published by Robson Books
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In the Ambulance, by Wilfred Gibson
From the Faber Book of War Poetry
Published by Faber and Faber
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Suicide in the Trenches, By Siegfried Sassoon
From Siegfried Sassoon 鈥� Collected Poems
Published by Faber and Faber
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Extract from Childhood Friends, by Rumi
Translated by Coleman Barks/John Moyne
From The Essential Rumi
Published by HarperCollins
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听 听Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Reader | Juliet Stevenson |
| Presenter | Roger McGough |
| Producer | Sally Heaven |
Broadcasts
- Sun 22 May 2016 16:30麻豆社 Radio 4
- Sat 28 May 2016 23:30麻豆社 Radio 4