Poetry Please

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

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Poetry Please: Fiona Benson

Fiona Benson

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Fiona Benson joins Roger McGough to make her selection from listeners' poetry requests.

Fiona Benson joins Roger McGough to make a selection of listener requests, including poems by Liz Berry, Sharon Olds, Walt Whitman, Lucille Clifton and more.

Fiona Benson joins Roger McGough to make her selection from listeners' requests. She chooses poems by Lucille Clifton, Sophie Herxheimer, Robin Robertson, Liz Berry, Walt Whitman, Sharon Olds, Hannah Hodgson and Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Fiona has published three collections of poetry: Bright Travellers, which was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize and won the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry's Prize for First Full Collection; Vertigo & Ghost, which won the Roehampton Poetry Prize and the Forward Prize for Best Collection; and a new collection, Ephemeron. 

The extract from Walt Whitman's Song of Myself is taken from a Drama on 3 production for BBC Radio 3, broadcast in 2021. The reader was Eleanor Bron and the Producer was Emma Harding. 

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