Main content
Sorry, this episode is not currently available

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.

30 minutes

Last on

Sat 28 May 2016 23:30

This Week's Poems

Ìý

The Scars

by Jon Glover

From To the Niagara Frontier – Poems New and Selected

Published by Carcanet

Ìý

Scars, by John Cassidy

From Night Cries

Published by Bloodaxe

Ìý

The Time Around Scars

by Michael OndaatjeÌý

Taken from

Ìý

The Scar

by Charles Tomlinson

From Charles Tomlinson – Collected Poems

Published by Oxford University Press

Ìý

Where Scars Come From

by William Harmon

From One Long Poem

Published by Louisiana State University Press

Ìý

You

By Hollie McNish

From Nobody Told Me: Poetry and Parenthood

Published by Blackfriars

Performed by Hollie McNish

Ìý

Marks Out of Ten

by Hollie McNish

From Nobody Told Me: Poetry and Parenthood

Published by Blackfriars

Performed by Hollie McNish

Ìý

Life’s Scars

by Ella Wheeler-Wilcox

From The Best Loved Poems of the American People

Published by Doubleday

Ìý

The Wound

by Ruth StoneÌý

From Simplicity

Published by Paris Press

Ìý

Extract from Christabel

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

From Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Poems

Published by Everyman

Ìý

Then, Time Does Not Bring Relief

by Edna St Vincent Millay

From

Ìý

All Because I loved you

byÌýOlu OguibeÌý

Taken from

Ìý

Walking Wounded, by Vernon Scannell

From Of Love and War – New and Selected Poems

Published by Robson Books

Ìý

In the Ambulance, by Wilfred Gibson

From the Faber Book of War Poetry

Published by Faber and Faber

Ìý

Suicide in the Trenches, By Siegfried Sassoon

From Siegfried Sassoon – Collected Poems

Published by Faber and Faber

Ìý

Extract from Childhood Friends, by Rumi

Translated by Coleman Barks/John Moyne

From The Essential Rumi

Published by HarperCollins

Ìý

Ìý

Ìý

Credits

Role Contributor
Reader Juliet Stevenson
Presenter Roger McGough
Producer Sally Heaven

Broadcasts

  • Sun 22 May 2016 16:30
  • Sat 28 May 2016 23:30