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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.

28 minutes

Last on

Sat 26 Oct 2019 23:30

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鈥檚 Leap

By Sharon Olds

From Stag鈥檚 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Unpublished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 2019 16:30
  • Sat 26 Oct 2019 23:30