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June Miscellany

Roger McGough with a miscellany of poems about sun, sleep, love and loss. Including poetry by Margaret Atwood, Fleur Adcock, Wislawa Symborska, John Keats and WH Auden. Producer Sally Heaven.

30 minutes

Last on

Sat 27 Jun 201523:30

This Week's Poems

A Green Cornfield

By Christina Rossetti

From The Book of a Thousand Poems; a Family Treasury

Published by Peter Bedrick Books

Nature Table

By Fleur Adcock

From Fleur Adcock – Selected Poems

Published by Oxford University Press

The Sunlight on the Garden

By Louis MacNeice

From The Collected Poems of Louis MacNeice

Published by Faber and Faber

Lost Hold

By Jenny Joseph

From Jenny Joseph – Selected Poems

Published by Bloodaxe

Exile

By Kathleen Raine

From Kathleen Raine – Selected Poems

Published by Golgonooza Press

Bright Star

By Keats

From Keats’s Poetry and Prose

Published by W. W. Norton & Company

Lullaby

By W H Auden

From W H Auden – Collected Shorter Poems 1927-1957

Published by Faber and Faber

To Althea from Prison

By Richard Lovelace

From An Anthology of World Poetry [Second Edition]

Published by Reynal & Hitchcock, Inc.

True Love

By Wislawa Szymborska

Translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh

From Wislawa Szymborska – Poems New and Collected 1957-1997

Published by Faber and Faber

Well Water

By Edmond Jabes

From A Share of Ink

Published by Menard Press

The Bluebird

By Charles Bukowski

From The Last Night of the Earth Poems

Published by Ecco / HarperCollins

Sleep Positions

By Lola Haskins

From Desire Lines

Published by BOA Editions, Limited

Aunt Julia

By Norman MacCaig

From The Rattle Bag

Published by Faber and Faber

Morning in the Burned House

By Margaret Atwood

From Morning in the Burned House

Published by Virago

Credits

RoleContributor
PresenterRoger McGough
ProducerSally Heaven

Broadcasts

  • Sun 21 Jun 201516:30
  • Sat 27 Jun 201523:30