Richard Scott
Roger McGough is joined by the poet Richard Scott, who shares a selection of his favourite poems from amongst listeners' requests.
Roger McGough is joined by Richard Scott (whose debut poetry collection Soho was shortlisted for the 2018 TS Eliot Prize), who shares a selection of his favourite poems from the Poetry Please archive of listeners' requests. His choices include poems by Rainer Maria Rilke, Jane Yeh, Mary Ruefle, Denise Riley, Daljit Nagra and Mark Doty.
Richard Scott was born in London in 1981. His poems have appeared widely in magazines and anthologies including Poetry Review, Poetry London, PN Review, Swimmers and The Poetry of Sex (Penguin). He has been a winner of the Wasafiri New Writing Prize, a Jerwood/Arvon Poetry Mentee and a member of the Aldeburgh 8. His pamphlet 'Wound' (Rialto) won the Michael Marks Poetry Award 2016 and his poem 'crocodile' won the 2017 Poetry London Competition. Soho (Faber & Faber) is his first book.
Producer: Mair Bosworth.
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This Week's Poems
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Archaic Torso of Apollo
By Rainer Maria Rilke
Translated by WD Snodgrass
Taken from 鈥楽elected Poems鈥�
Published by BOA Editions/Graywolf Press
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A Green Crab鈥檚 Shell
By Mark Doty
Taken from 鈥楢tlantis鈥�
Published by Harper Perennial
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Museum
By Richard Scott
Taken from听 鈥楽oho鈥�
Published by Faber & Faber
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1st Part of 鈥楳editations on the British Museum鈥�
By Daljit Nagra
Taken from 鈥楤ritish Museum鈥櫶�
Published by Faber & Faber
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Under the Answering Sky
By Denise Riley 听
Taken from 鈥楽ay Something Back鈥�
Published by Picador
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Canopy
By Emily Berry
Taken from 鈥楽tranger, Baby鈥�
Published by Faber & Faber
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On Being an Android
By Jane Yeh
Taken from 鈥楾he Ninjas鈥�
Published by Carcanet
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Provenance
By Mary Ruefle
Taken from 鈥楾rances of the Blast鈥�
Published by Wave Books
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