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 – Poems New and Selected
Published by Carcanet
Scars, by John Cassidy
From Night Cries
Published by Bloodaxe
The Time Around Scars
by Michael Ondaatje
Taken from http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/michael_ondaatje/poems/15882
The Scar
by Charles Tomlinson
From Charles Tomlinson – Collected Poems
Published by Oxford University Press
Where Scars Come From
by William Harmon
From One Long Poem
Published by Louisiana State University Press
You
By Hollie McNish
From Nobody Told Me: Poetry and Parenthood
Published by Blackfriars
Performed by Hollie McNish
Marks Out of Ten
by Hollie McNish
From Nobody Told Me: Poetry and Parenthood
Published by Blackfriars
Performed by Hollie McNish
Life’s Scars
by Ella Wheeler-Wilcox
From The Best Loved Poems of the American People
Published by Doubleday
The Wound
by Ruth Stone
From Simplicity
Published by Paris Press
Extract from Christabel
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
From Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Poems
Published by Everyman
Then, Time Does Not Bring Relief
by Edna St Vincent Millay
From http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/46464
All Because I loved you
by Olu Oguibe
Taken from http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/21423/all_because_i_loved_you
Walking Wounded, by Vernon Scannell
From Of Love and War – New and Selected Poems
Published by Robson Books
In the Ambulance, by Wilfred Gibson
From the Faber Book of War Poetry
Published by Faber and Faber
Suicide in the Trenches, By Siegfried Sassoon
From Siegfried Sassoon – Collected Poems
Published by Faber and Faber
Extract from Childhood Friends, by Rumi
Translated by Coleman Barks/John Moyne
From The Essential Rumi
Published by HarperCollins
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Reader | Juliet Stevenson |
| Presenter | Roger McGough |
| Producer | Sally Heaven |
Broadcasts
- Sun 22 May 2016 16:30BBC Radio 4
- Sat 28 May 2016 23:30BBC Radio 4