Richard Scott
Roger McGough is joined by the poet Richard Scott, who shares a selection of his favourite poems from amongst listeners' requests.
Roger McGough is joined by Richard Scott (whose debut poetry collection Soho was shortlisted for the 2018 TS Eliot Prize), who shares a selection of his favourite poems from the Poetry Please archive of listeners' requests. His choices include poems by Rainer Maria Rilke, Jane Yeh, Mary Ruefle, Denise Riley, Daljit Nagra and Mark Doty.
Richard Scott was born in London in 1981. His poems have appeared widely in magazines and anthologies including Poetry Review, Poetry London, PN Review, Swimmers and The Poetry of Sex (Penguin). He has been a winner of the Wasafiri New Writing Prize, a Jerwood/Arvon Poetry Mentee and a member of the Aldeburgh 8. His pamphlet 'Wound' (Rialto) won the Michael Marks Poetry Award 2016 and his poem 'crocodile' won the 2017 Poetry London Competition. Soho (Faber & Faber) is his first book.
Producer: Mair Bosworth.
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This Week's Poems
Archaic Torso of Apollo
By Rainer Maria Rilke
Translated by WD Snodgrass
Taken from ‘Selected Poems’
Published by BOA Editions/Graywolf Press
A Green Crab’s Shell
By Mark Doty
Taken from ‘Atlantis’
Published by Harper Perennial
Museum
By Richard Scott
Taken from ‘Soho’
Published by Faber & Faber
1st Part of ‘Meditations on the British Museum’
By Daljit Nagra
Taken from ‘British Museum’
Published by Faber & Faber
Under the Answering Sky
By Denise Riley
Taken from ‘Say Something Back’
Published by Picador
Canopy
By Emily Berry
Taken from ‘Stranger, Baby’
Published by Faber & Faber
On Being an Android
By Jane Yeh
Taken from ‘The Ninjas’
Published by Carcanet
Provenance
By Mary Ruefle
Taken from ‘Trances of the Blast’
Published by Wave Books
Broadcasts
- Sun 10 Mar 201916:30BBC Radio 4
- Sat 16 Mar 201923:30BBC Radio 4
