
Colours
Roger McGough brings poetry of love and of colours: blue, green, crimson, silver... from poets as varied as Christopher Marlowe and ee cummings. The readers are Indira Varma and Tim Pigott-Smith.
Producer Beth O'Dea.
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This Week's Poems
Elegia V, Corinnae Concubitus
By Christopher Marlowe
From Heaven on Earth: 101 Happy Poems
Published by Faber and Faber
A Beautiful Young Nymph Going To Bed
By Jonathan Swift
From Jonathan Swift: A Critical Edition of the Major Works
Published by Oxford University Press
Gift
By Czeslaw Milosz
(translated from the Polish by the author)
From Being Alive
Published by Bloodaxe Books
stand with your lover on the ending earth
By ee cummings
From E.E. Cummings – Complete Poems 1904-1962
Published by Liveright
Romance
By W.J. Turner
From The New Oxford Book of Children’s Verse
Published by Oxford University Press
Love After Love
By Derek Walcott
From Being Alive
Published by Bloodaxe Books
Under
By J.C. Squire
From The Faber Book of Twentieth Century Verse
Published by Faber and Faber
Ever After
By Maggie Sawkins
From The Zig Zag Woman by Maggie Sawkins
Published by Two Ravens Press
Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal, Now the White
By Alfred Lord Tennyson
From Alfred Lord Tennyson: Selected Poems
Published by Penguin Classics
Poems Of Solitary Delights
By Tachibana Akemi
Translated by Geoffrey Bownas and Anthony Thwaite
From Heaven on Earth: 101 Happy Poems
Published by Faber and Faber
On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
By John Keats
From Heaven on Earth: 101 Happy Poems
Published by Faber and Faber
A Birthday
By Christina Rossetti
From The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse
Published by Oxford University Press
Colours
By Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Translated by Peter Levi and Robin Milner-Gulland
From: Yevtushenko: Selected Poems: Selected Poems
Published by Penguin Classics
For the Bed at Kelmscott
By William Morris
From William Morris: Selected Poems
Published by Carcanet
Sweet and low, sweet and low
By Alfred Lord Tennyson
From Alfred Lord Tennyson: Selected Poems
Published by Penguin Classics
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Roger McGough |
| Reader | Indira Varma |
| Reader | Tim Pigott-Smith |
| Producer | Beth O'Dea |
Broadcasts
- Sun 27 Sep 201516:30BBC Radio 4
- Sat 3 Oct 201523:30BBC Radio 4