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

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Poetry Please: Jackie Kay

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Jackie Kay joins Roger McGough to pick favourite poems from listener requests.

Jackie Kay joins Roger McGough to rifle through our listener requests for poems, picking favourites including W. B. Yeats, Roger Robinson and Ntozake Shange.

Roger McGough is joined in the studio by Jackie Kay, who rifles through listener requests to pick out some of her favourite poems.

They include well-loved classics, such as The Lake Isle of Innisfree by W. B. Yeats, alongside oft-requested poems by Roger Robinson and Norman MacCaig and poets new to Roger, such as Ntozake Shange.     

Jackie Kay is the former Scottish Makar, and as well as being a poet is also a novelist, playwright and librettist. Her collections include Bantam, Adoption Papers, Trumpet, Other Lovers and her recent memoir, Red Dust Road. 

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