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W.R. Rodgers (1909-1969)

W.R. Rodgers was born in Belfast in 1909. He became a Presbyterian Minister in 1935 and served in Loughgall, Co. Armagh, until 1946 when he moved to London to work for the BBC.

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W.R. RodgersHe published two collections of poems, Awake! and Other Poems (1941) and Europa and the Bull and Other Poems (1952). His most celebrated radio feature is The Return Room, a colourful account of his Belfast childhood.

He died in California in 1969. Collected Poems appeared in 1971. Poems (1993, edited by Michael Longley) was published by The Gallery Press.

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The vividness of W R Rodgers’ work was projected partly as an assault on religious narrowness and cultural restriction. His most characteristic poems explore Christian themes, or express an open-faced and big-hearted randiness, or both.

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