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Bubble and Squeak

Roger McGough with something for everyone, from WB Yeats to Elizabeth Barrett Browning by way of Ted Hughes and Derek Walcott. Producer Sally Heaven.

30 minutes

Last on

Sat 21 Feb 201523:30

This Week's Poems

Sailing to Byzantium

By WB Yeats

From The Collected Poems of WB Yeats

Published by Palgrave

The Idea of Order at Key West

By Wallace Stevens

From Wallace Stevens – Collected Poems

Published by Faber and Faber

Verse for a Certain Dog

By Dorothy Parker

From The Collected Dorothy Parker

Published by Penguin

The Licorice Fields at Pontefract

By John Betjeman

From John Betjeman – Collected Poems

Published by John Murray

Six Men in Search of a Car

By Paul Henry

From The Brittle Sea, New and Selected Poems

Published by Seren

A Model Railway

By Paul Henry

From The Brittle Sea, New and Selected Poems

Published by Seren

Acts of Love

By Pam Rehm

From Small Works

Published by Flood editions 2005

Love After Love

By Derek Walcott

From Collected Poems 1948-1984

Published by Faber and Faber

On a Portrait of Wordsworth

By Elizabeth Barrett Browning

From Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Poetical Works

Published by Oxford University Press

The Lost Leader

By Robert Browning

From Browning – Poems Selected by W.E. Williams

Published by Penguin

Fulbright Scholars

By Ted Hughes

From Birthday Letters

Published by Faber and Faber

Post Script

By Gillian Clarke

From A Recipe for Water

Published by Carcanet

First Sight

By Philip Larkin

From The Whitsun Weddings

Published by Faber and Faber

Rhyw ddiolchgarwch / A Time and a Place

By Menna Elfyn

Translated by Elin Ap Hywel

From Perffaith Nam / Perfect Blemish: New & Selected Poems 1995-2007

Published by Bloodaxe

Credit

RoleContributor
PresenterRoger McGough

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  • Sun 15 Feb 201516:30
  • Sat 21 Feb 201523:30