On Nurses by Roger Robinson

Recorded on date : November 30, 2020

Roger Robinson reads his poem ‘On Nurses’ – taken from his RSL Ondaatje Prize winning poetry collection A Portable Paradise.

The annual ¬£10,000 RSL Ondaatje Prize is for books – fiction, non-fiction, poetry – that best evoke the spirit of a place.

The 2020 judges are Peter Frankopan (Chair), Pascale Petit and Evie Wyld.

Illustration by Liang-Hsin Huang.

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