Remember
To coincide with National Poetry Day, Roger McGough presents listeners requests on the theme of 'Remember'. Including 'Aftermath', a moving poem of the First World War by Siegfried Sassoon, Brian Patten reading 'So Many Different Lengths of Time', and the Christina Rossetti classic 'Remember'.
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This Week's Poems
Remember
by Christina Rossetti
From Christina Rossetti - Poems
Published by Everyman
So Many Different Lengths of Time
by Brian Patten
From Armada by Brian Patten
Published by HarperCollins
Cleaning the Brasses
by Angela Topping
From Letting Go
Published by Mother's Milk Books
My Papa’s Waltz
by Theodore Roethke
From The Longman Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry (second edition)
Published by Longman
In Memoriam
by Michael Longley
From Michael Longley – Collected Poems
Published by Cape Poetry
I Remember, I Remember
by Thomas Hood
From Thomas Hood – Selected Poems
Published by Fyfield Books
(Extract from) Summoned by Bells
by John Betjeman
Published by John Murray
It Was Long Ago
by Eleanor Farjeon
From A Little, Aloud
Published by Chatto and Windus
A New Diary
by Dannie Abse
From Dannie Abse - New and Collected Poems
Published by Hutchinson
I Sit Beside the Fire
by JRR Tolkien
From the Fellowship of the Ring: The Lord of the Rings Part 1
Published by HarperCollins
A History Lesson
by Miroslav Holub
From The Fly by Miroslav Holub
Published by Bloodaxe
Remembrance by Waldo Williams
Translation by Alan Llwyd
Taken from the website
http://www.waldowilliams.com/?page_id=327〈=en
Memories
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
From The Poetical Works of Longfellow
Published by Oxford University Press
Aftermath
by Siegfried Sassoon
From Siegfried Sassoon - Collected Poems 1908–1956
Published by Faber
Credit
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Roger McGough |
Broadcasts
- Sun 28 Sep 201416:30BBC Radio 4
- Sat 4 Oct 201423:30BBC Radio 4
