16/02/2014
Roger McGough presents a selection of listeners poetry requests, from Lewis Carroll to Billy Collins via Kipling and Rossetti. There's also a close look at the poetry of Raymond Carver. With readers Harriet Walter and Guy Paul.
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If
By Rudyard Kipling
From Rudyard Kipling Verse: Definitive Edition
Published by Hodder & Stoughton
What the Doctor Said
By Raymond Carver
From A New Path to the Waterfall
Published by Harvill (Harper Collins)
Forgetfulness
By Billy Collins
From Staying Alive: Real Poems for Unreal Times
Published by Bloodaxe Books
Late Fragment
By Raymond Carver
From A New Path to the Waterfall
Published by Harvill (Harper Collins)
Prosser
By Raymond Carver
From Fires
Published by Picador
The Big Parade
By Stephen Knight
From Dream City Cinema
Published by Bloodaxe Books
His Bathrobe Pocket Stuffed with Notes
By Raymond Carver
From A New Path to the Waterfall
Published by Harvill (Harper Collins)
A Birthday
By Christina Rossetti
From Selected Poems
Published by Penguin
Foreign Lands
By Robert Louis Stevenson
From Selected Poems
Published by Penguin
The Walrus and the Carpenter
By Lewis Carroll
From The Puffin Book of Nonsense Verse
Published by Puffin
Gunga Din
By Rudyard Kipling
From Rudyard Kipling Verse: Definitive Edition
Published by Hodder & Stoughton
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Roger McGough |
| Reader | Harriet Walter |
| Reader | Guy Paul |
Broadcasts
- Sun 16 Feb 201416:30BBC Radio 4
- Sat 22 Feb 201423:30BBC Radio 4
