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Bloomsday

Roger McGough celebrates Bloomsday with poetry by James Joyce and Paul Durcan. The programme also features the usual varied selection of listeners' requests for poets including Kenneth Slessor, Julia Darling and Fannie Stearns-Gifford. Producer Sally Heaven.

30 minutes

Last on

Sat 20 Jun 201523:30

This Week's Poems

A Flower Given to my Daughter

By James Joyce

From Joyce Choyce – The Poems in Verse and Prose of James Joyce

Published by Kyle Cathie Limited

Alone

By James Joyce

From Joyce Choyce – The Poems in Verse and Prose of James Joyce

Published by Kyle Cathie Limited

Dublin

By Louis MacNeice

From The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse

Published by Oxford University Press

Souls

By Fannie Stearns Gifford

From The Home Book of Modern Verse

Published by Henry Holt

Indelible, Miraculous

By Julia Darling

From Indelible, Miraculous – The Collected Poems of Julia Darling

Published by Arc Publications

The Night-Ride

By Kenneth Slessor

From The Faber Book of Modern Australian Verse

Published by Faber and Faber

Silent Noon

By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

From Dante Gabriel Rossetti – Collected Writings

Published by New Amsterdam Books

The Bookmark

By Graham Swift

From Making An Elephant…Writing From Within

Published by Picador

The Goat Paths

By James Stephens

http://www.poemhunter.com/best-poems/james-stephens/the-goat-paths/

Ulysses

By Paul Durcan

From a Snail in my Prime – New and Selected Poems

Published by Harvill / HarperCollins

Gas From a Burner

By James Joyce

From Joyce Choyce – The Poems in Verse and Prose of James Joyce

Published by Kyle Cathie Limited

Credits

RoleContributor
PresenterRoger McGough
ProducerSally Heaven

Broadcasts

  • Sun 14 Jun 201516:30
  • Sat 20 Jun 201523:30