
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
Bird
By Liz Berry
From Black Country
Publisher: Chatto & Windus
The Strait-jackets
By Pascale Petit
From The Zoo Father
Published by Seren
Belarusian I
By Valzhyna Mort
From Factory of Tears
Published by Copper Canyon Press
Home (extract from)
By Warsan Shire
Megan Married Herself
By Caroline Bird
From In These Days of Prohibition
Published by Carcanet
Stag’s Leap
By Sharon Olds
From Stag’s Leap
Published by Knopf
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
Lean on the Water
by Kim Hyesoon
Translated from the Korean by Don Mee Choi
From Autobiography of Death
Published by New Directions Publishing
The Little Miracles
By Malika Booker
Unpublished
Broadcasts
- Sun 20 Oct 201916:30BBC Radio 4
- Sat 26 Oct 201923:30BBC Radio 4