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.
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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 16:30Â鶹Éç Radio 4
- Sun 16 Jul 2023 00:15Â鶹Éç Radio 4