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Roger McGough introduces selections of poetry on various themes, chosen by listeners.

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Poetry Please: Caroline Bird

Caroline Bird

BBC Radio 4 - Poetry Please, Caroline Bird

Roger McGough hears a selection of Caroline Bird's favourite poems.

Roger McGough is joined by poet Caroline Bird, who shares a selection of her favourite poems from amongst listeners' requests.

Roger McGough is joined by the poet Caroline Bird, who shares a selection of her favourite poems from the Poetry Please archive of listener requests. Her choices include poems by Selima Hill, Ada Limon, Tomas Transtromer, Luke Kennard, Carolyn Forche and Terrance Hayes. 

Caroline Bird is a poet and playwright. She has five collections of poetry published by Carcanet. Her most recent collection, In These Days of Prohibition, was shortlisted for the 2017 TS Eliot Prize and The Ted Hughes Award. A two time winner of the Foyles Young Poets Award, her first collection Looking Through Letterboxes was published in 2002 when she was 15. She won a major Eric Gregory Award in 2002 and was shortlisted for the Geoffrey Dearmer Prize in 2001 and the Dylan Thomas Prize in 2008 and 2010. She was one of the five official poets at the 2012 London Olympics. She is currently working on her sixth poetry collection. 

Producer: Mair Bosworth.

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