Dreams and Sleep
Roger McGough introduces poems about dreams and sleep, with works by DH Lawrence, Rose Macaulay, Norman MacCaig and others. The readers are Adjoa Andoh and Patrick Romer.
Dreams and sleep people the poems that Roger McGough introduces this week, with works by DH Lawrence, Rose Macaulay, Norman MacCaig and others. Poets from across the centuries nudge up against each other, as they engage in a dialogue around the ways in which day dreams and deep sleep can stoke the imagination. The readers are Adjoa Andoh and Patrick Romer.
Producer: Mark Smalley.
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This Week's Poems
Journey Planner
By Lorraine Mariner
From Bye for Now
Published by The Rialto (Bridge Pamphlets No. 1)
Travel
By Edna St Vincent Millay
From Collected Poems (ed. Norma Millay)
Published by Harper Perennial
Pleasant Sounds
By John Clare
From Sensational: Poems Inspired by the Senses
Published by Macmillan Children’s Books
Music’s Empire
By Andrew Marvell
From The Complete Poems
Published by Penguin
Incident
By Norman MacCaig
From Collected Poems: New Edition
Published by Chatto & Windus
Day Dream
By ASJ Tessimond
From Collected Poems (trans. Jacques Prevert)
Published by Bloodaxe Books
Elizabeth Pender’s Dream of Friendship
By Alan Brownjohn
From Alan Brownjohn: Collected Poems 1951-83
Published by Secker & Warburg
While I was Sleeping
By Antonio Machado (trans. Willis Barnstone)
From Being Alive (ed. Neil Astley)
Published by Bloodaxe Books
Four Corners of Sleep
By Benn Moston
From The Civilized and Other Poems
Published by Arthur H Stockwell
We Are Transmitters
By D.H. Lawrence
From The Love Poems of D.H. Lawrence
Published by Kyle Cathie
I’d Rather Go Hedging
By Frank Mansell
From Cotswold Ballads
Published by Richard Courtauld
When First
By Edward Thomas
From Collected Poems
Published by Faber
Selborne Hanger
By Gilbert White
From The Natural History & Antiquities of Selborne
To Iron-Founders and Others
By Gordon Bottomley
From The Oxford Book of Modern Verse 1892-1935
Published by Oxford University Press
Picnic July 1917
By Rose Macaulay
From First World War Poems, chosen by Andrew Motion.
Published by Faber & Faber
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Roger McGough |
| Reader | Adjoa Andoh |
| Reader | Patrick Romer |
| Producer | Mark Smalley |
Broadcasts
- Sun 2 Feb 201416:30BBC Radio 4
- Sat 8 Feb 201423:30BBC Radio 4
