Poetry Please - Poets Laureate
Daljit Nagra chooses Poetry Please: Poets Laureate with a selection of poets including Betjeman and Carol Ann Duffy. From 2014.
It's 50 years since John Betjeman was appointed Poet Laureate.
To mark the occasion Daljit Nagra chooses 'Poetry Please: Poets Laureate' with Roger McGough and a selection of works by Poets Laureate past and present.
These include Wordsworth, Tennyson, Betjeman, Ted Hughes and Carol Ann Duffy.
There's also a Cecil Day Lewis poem read by his son Daniel Day-Lewis, recorded as part of the exhibition 'Poetry for the Palace: Poets Laureate from Dryden to Duffy' at The Queen's Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse.
Readers: Anton Lesser and Alice Arnold.
Producer: Sally Heaven
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2014.
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This week's poems
The Reverie of Poor Susan
by William Wordsworth
From Common Ground; an Anthology
Published by Carcanet Press
Happy the Man- part of John Dryden’s translation of Horace’s Odes. Extract from ‘Horace, Odes, Book III, xxix’
Taken from Dryden – Selected Poems.
Published by Longman
The Cataract of Lodore
by Robert Southey
From Southey’s Poems
Published by Oxford University Press
Break, Break, Break
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
From Selected Poems of Tennyson
Published by Macmillan
To the River Lodon
by Thomas Wharton
Taken from http://www.bartleby.com/333/85.html
Extract from There is a Hill
by Robert Bridges
From Robert Bridges’ Poetical Works
Oxford University Press
Sea Fever
by John Masefield
Taken from John Masefield – Collected Poems
Published by William Heinemann Ltd
Children Leaving Home
by C. Day Lewis
From C. Day Lewis - The Complete Poems
Published by Sinclair-Stevenson
Dilton Marsh Halt
by John Betjeman
From John Betjeman – Collected Poems
Published by John Murray
Horses
by Ted Hughes
From Ted Hughes – New Selected Poems 1957-1994
Published by Faber
Spring Wedding
by Andrew Motion
Taken from The Telegraph website
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1487433/Spring-Wedding.html
English Elms
by Carol Ann Duffy
Taken from BBC Newsnight website
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/8922106.stm
Charge of the Light Brigade
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
From Selected Poems of Tennyson
Published by Macmillan
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Roger McGough |
| Reader | Daniel Day-Lewis |
| Reader | Anton Lesser |
| Reader | Alice Arnold |
Broadcasts
Sun 14 Sep 201416:30BBC Radio 4- Sat 20 Sep 201423:30BBC Radio 4
- Sun 27 Nov 202212:00BBC Radio 4 Extra
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