Fire and Water
Roger McGough is in his element, presenting requests for poems that evoke fire and water. We'll hear Alice Oswald reading extracts from her river poem, 'Dart'. Dylan Thomas, Pablo Neruda and TS Eliot will also feature. Among the readers are Jenny Coverack and Alun Raglan.
Producer: Mark Smalley.
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This Week's Poems
Beck
By Norman Nicholson
From Selected Poems 1940-1982
Published by Faber & Faber
A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London
By Dylan Thomas
From Collected Poems 1934-1953
Published by Everyman
Rain
By Edward Thomas
From The Collected Poems and War Diary, 1917
Published by Faber & Faber
The Memory of Water
By Fiona Hamilton
Unpublished
Elements of Healing
By Rose Flint
Published in Resurgence Magazine, Jan/Feb 2009
Dart
By Alice Oswald
From Dart
Published by Faber & Faber
Introduction to Four Elements
By Anne Bradstreet
Extract from Four Elements – Fire
By Anne Bradstreet
Horses
By Pablo Neruda (Translated by Stephen Mitchell)
From Being Alive
Published by Bloodaxe
The Four Angels
By Rudyard Kipling
From The Definitive Edition of Rudyard Kipling’s Verse
Published by Hodder and Stoughton
Extract from Four Elements – Fire
By Anne Bradstreet
Sonnet 44
By William Shakespeare
From The Complete Sonnets and Poems
Published by Oxford UP
Sonnet 45
By William Shakespeare
From The Complete Sonnets and Poems
Published by Oxford UP
Marina
By TS Eliot
From The Faber Book of Modern Verse
Published by Faber
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Roger McGough |
| Reader | Jenny Coverack |
| Reader | Alun Raglan |
| Producer | Mark Smalley |
Broadcasts
- Sun 1 Jun 201416:30BBC Radio 4
- Sat 7 Jun 201423:30BBC Radio 4
