Are the Kids Alright?
Vanessa Kisuule unearths the poems that speak to the big issues we're all grappling with鈥� This week it's raising teens. Can poetry help?
Vanessa Kisuule unearths the poems that speak to the big issues we are grappling with. This week, it's raising teens
How might we equip kids for a future, that we adults are struggling to get our heads around? In this media-saturated, politically-divided, ecologically threatened landscape, how can we raise resilient, happy children? And what, if anything, can poetry do to help us along the way?
With poets Matthew Guenette, Jackie Kay and Steven Camden (aka Polar Bear), Valerie Kinloch, author of June Jordan: Her Life and Letters... and some obliging kids.
Produced in Bristol by Ellie Richold
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Love Will Tear Us Apart
By Matt Guenette听
From Matthew Guenette
Published by University of Akron Press
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Television
By Roald Dahl
From Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Published by Puffin
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Hope is The Thing With Feathers
By Emily Dickinson听
From The Complete Poems 鈥� Emily Dickinson
Published by Faber & Faber
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Talking Turkeys
By Benjamin Zephaniah
From Talking Turkeys
Published by Puffin
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July 4, 1974
By June Jordan听
From Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan
Published by Copper Canyon Press
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A Banquet for the Boys
By Jackie Kay听
From May Day
Published by Picador
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- Tue 30 Dec 2025 16:00麻豆社 Radio 4
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