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Michael Pedersen

Michael Pederson joins Roger McGough to make a selection of listener requests, including poems by Jackie Kay, Edwin Morgan, Maggie Smith and more.

The Scottish poet Michael Pederson joins Roger McGough to make a selection of listener requests, including poems by Jackie Kay, Edwin Morgan, Maggie Smith, Ted Hughes and Ada Limón.

Michael has published three collections of poetry, including his most recent, The Cat Prince. His prose memoir, Boy Friends, was published in 2022. He won a Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship, the John Mather's Trust Rising Star of Literature Award. Pedersen also co-founded Neu! Reekie! — a prize-winning literary production house that produced cutting edge shows in Scotland and the world over for over ten years.

Produced by Eliza Lomas for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Audio.

28 minutes

Last on

Sun 16 Jul 2023 00:15

This Week's Poems

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Strawberries

By Edwin Morgan

From Edwin Morgan – Collected Poems

Published by Carcanet

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April Sunshine

By Jackie Kay

From Bantam

Published by Picador Poetry

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Good Bones

By Maggie Smith

From Good Bones

Published by Tupelo Press

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The Thought Fox

By Ted Hughes

From Ted Hughes – New Selected Poems 1957-1994

Published by Faber & Faber

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And

By Hollie McNish

From Hollie’s latest book, due to be released in 2024

Published by Little Brown

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How to Triumph Like a Girl

By Ada Limon

From Bright Dead Things

Published by Milkweed Editions

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The Cat Prince

By Michael Pedersen

From The Cat Prince & Other Poems

Published by Corsair

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From a Railway Carriage

By Robert Louis Stevenson

From The Book of a Thousand Poems

Published by Collins Educational


Broadcasts

  • Sun 9 Jul 2023 16:30
  • Sun 16 Jul 2023 00:15