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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.

30 minutes

Last on

Sat 21 Mar 201523:30

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

RoleContributor
PresenterRoger McGough

Broadcasts

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