Canals, rivers, boats and lakes
Roger McGough presents a selection of poems on a watery theme, recorded at the Birmingham Literature Festival.
This year National Poetry Day has taken the theme of water and Poetry Please has thrown off its clothes and jumped in with a selection of poems about lakes, rivers, boats and canals. All recorded live at the Birmingham literature festival in the new Library of Birmingham, amidst the many waterways of the venice of the Midlands.
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Lifted
By Jo Bell
Unpublished
Gosty Hill
By Liz Berry
Unpublished
Canal 1977
By UA Fanthorpe
From ‘Collected Poems 1978-2003’
Published by Peterloo Poets
Abstracted Water
By Roy Fisher
From ‘The Long and the Short of It – Poems 1955-2010’
Published by Bloodaxe
Grand Union Bridge
By Ian Duhig
Unpublished
Draining the Grand Union
By Tobias Hill
From ‘Zoo’
Published by Oxford University Press
The Crick Poem
By Jo Bell
Unpublished
The Black Delph Bride
By Liz Berry
Unpublished
Extract from A Flight of Locks
By Jamie McKendrick
From ‘The Marble Fly’
Published by Oxford Paperbacks
Frozen In
By Jo Bell
Unpublished
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Roger McGough |
| Producer | Tim Dee |
Broadcasts
- Sun 13 Oct 201316:30BBC Radio 4
- Sat 19 Oct 201323:30BBC Radio 4
