Miscellany from Persia to Eaglehawk
Roger McGough travels from Rumi's 13th century Persia to Banjo Patterson's Eaglehawk, Australia via Thom Gunn's Pacific Ocean with Poetry Please. Poetry from Carol Ann Duffy, Thomas Hardy, Edna St Vincent Millay, Felix Dennis and Michael Hamburger also features.
Producer Sally Heaven.
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This Week's Poems
River
By Carol Ann Duffy
From Selected Poems
Published by Penguin
Renascence
By Edna St Vincent Millay
From Collected Poems – Edna St Vincent Millay
Published by Harper and Row
Something Tapped
By Thomas Hardy
From Thomas Hardy – A Critical Selection of His Finest Poetry
Published by Oxford University Press
Longing
By Matthew Arnold
Taken from http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/longing/
Discovery of the Pacific
By Thom Gunn
From Collected Poems
Published by Faber & Faber
Travelling I
By Michael Hamburger
From Michael Hamburger – Collected Poems 1941-1983
Published by Carcanet Press
Church Going
By Philip Larkin
From Collected Poems
Published by Faber & Faber
The Guest House
by Rumi
Translated by Coleman Barks
Taken from http://www.gratefulness.org/poetry/guest_house.htm
Love's Language
By Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Taken from http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/love-s-language/
Laughing Buddha
By Felix Dennis
From Island Dreams – 99 Poems from Mustique
Published by Noctua Press
A Leisure Centre is Also a Temple of Learning
By Sue Boyle
Taken from Poems of the Decade – An Anthology of the Forward Books of Poetry
Published by Faber & Faber
Mulga Bill's Bicycle
By Banjo Patterson
From Rio Grande's Last Race and Other Verses
Published by World Wide School
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Roger McGough |
| Producer | Sally Heaven |
Broadcasts
- Sun 10 May 201516:30BBC Radio 4
- Sat 16 May 201523:30BBC Radio 4
