
Poetry and Religion
Roger McGough explores a wide range of poetry about religion, with musings by George Herbert, Jalal al-Din Rumi, William Blake, Billy Collins and Roger McGough.
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This Week's Poems
Love III
By George Herbert
From George Herbert – The Complete English Poems
Published by Penguin
My Garden
By TE Brown
From the Collected Poems of T E Brown
Published by Macmillan and Co Limited
Questions About Angels
By Billy Collins
From Questions About Angels
Published by The University of Pittsburgh Press
Granma and the Angels
By Roger McGough
From As Far as I Know
Published by Penguin
The Angel that Presided O'er My Birth
By William Blake
From Blake’s Poetical Works
Published by Oxford University Press
Listening
By Rumi
Translated by Coleman Barks
From The Glance: Songs of Soul-Meeting
Published by Viking Penguin
God's Funeral
By Thomas Hardy
From Thomas Hardy – A Critical Selection of His Finest Poetry
Published by Oxford University Press
A Hindu to his Body
by AK Ramanujan
From The Collected Poems of A K Ramanujan
Published by Oxford University Press. India.
God's World
By Edna St Vincent Millay
From Collected Poems of Edna St.Vincent Millay
Published by Harper Perennial
I Thank You God
By ee cummings
From E.E Cummings – Complete Poems 1904-1962
Published by Liveright
As Kingfishers Catch Fire
By Gerald Manley Hopkins
From Hopkins
Published by Everyman’s Library
The Red Koran
By Mena Abdullah
From Songs for All Seasons: 100 Poems for Young People
Published by Angus and Robertson
Extract from Psalm 139
Taken from the King James Bible
Psalm 92
Taken from the King James Bible and track 3 from the CD ‘Music of the Spanish and Portuguese Synagogue’
Label: Folkways Records
Credit
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Roger McGough |
Broadcasts
- Sun 15 Mar 201516:30BBC Radio 4
- Sat 21 Mar 201523:30BBC Radio 4