
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.
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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
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Roger McGough |
| Producer | Sally Heaven |
Broadcasts
- Sun 21 Jun 201516:30BBC Radio 4
- Sat 27 Jun 201523:30BBC Radio 4