Miles Chambers
Roger Roger McGough is joined by Bristol's first poet laureate, Miles Chambers, with a selection of his favourite poems from the Poetry Please archive of listeners' requests.
Bristol's first poet laureate, Miles Chambers, joins Roger McGough with a selection of his favourite poems from the Poetry Please archive of listeners' requests. His choices include requests for Benjamin Zephaniah, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Azfa Awad and Robert Burns.
Miles Chambers is a performance poet, slam champion and playwright, who was appointed Bristol's first City Poet in 2016.
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This Week's Poems
Now Westlin’ Winds
By Robert Burns
From The Poetical Works of Robert Burns
Published by Senate
IX from Twelve Songs (Stop All the Clocks..)
By W. H. Auden
From W. H. Auden Collected Shorter Poems 1927-1957
Published by Faber and Faber
My Dad
By Miles Chambers
Unpublished
The Windhover
By Gerard Manley Hopkins
From The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Published by Oxford University Press
Redemption Song
By Bob Marley
BBC archive recording from ‘With Great Pleasure’, read and sung by Kwame Kwei-Armah, 2013
Grenfell Tower, June 2017
By Ben Okri
From https://www.ft.com/content/39022f72-5742-11e7-80b6-9bfa4c1f83d2
Origins
By Azfa Awad
From England: Poems From A School
Published by Picador
Talking Turkeys
By Benjamin Zephaniah
From Talking Turkeys
Published by Puffin Books
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Roger McGough |
| Interviewed Guest | Miles Chambers |
Broadcasts
- Sun 19 Aug 201816:30BBC Radio 4 FM
- Sat 25 Aug 201823:30BBC Radio 4
