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

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Poetry Please: Michael Pedersen

Michael Pedersen

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The writer Michael Pedersen joins Roger McGough to share some favourite poems.

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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