Robert Burns and More
Roger McGough with listeners' requests, including poetry by Robert Burns, Ben Okri and Gerard Manley Hopkins. with readings by Sir Ian McKellan and Liz Lochhead as well as Ariyon Bakare, Jasmine Hyde and Patrick Romer. Producer Sally Heaven.
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This Week's Poems
The Blackbird
by W E Henley
Sourced from Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry Online
Stormcock in Elder by Ruth Pitter
From: Ruth Pitter Collected Poems
Pub: Enitharmon 1996
Flowers and Men
by DH Lawrence
From: DH Lawrence the Complete Poems
Pub: Penguin
The Field
by Rose Flint
Sourced from: Literaturewales.org
Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock
by Wallace Stevens
Sourced from Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry Online
Elegy
by Edna St Vincent Millay
From: Collected Poems
Pub: Harper & Row
I Have Been Through the Gates
by Charlotte Mew
Sourced from Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry Online
More Fishes than Stars
by Ben Okri
From: Wild by Ben Okri
Pub: Rider, 2012 (Ebury imprint)
The Explanation
by Kipling
From: The Definitive Edition of Rudyard Kipling’s Verse
Pub: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd 1989
Song of the Reed
by Rumi
Translated by Jawid Mojaddedi
From: Rumi The Masnavi Book One
Pub: Oxford World’s Classics 2004.
Bagpipe Music
by Louis MacNeice
From: Collected Poems
Pub: Faber
Inversnaid
by G M Hopkins
From: the Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Pub: OUP
Now Westlin Winds
by Robert Burns
From The Poetical Works of Robert Burns
Pub: Bracken Books
The Laws of God The Laws of Man
by A. E. Housman
From the Collected Poems of A.E.Housman
Pub: Jonathan Cape
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Roger McGough |
| Reader | Ian McKellan |
| Reader | Liz Lochhead |
| Reader | Ariyon Bakare |
| Reader | Jasmine Hyde |
| Reader | Patrick Romer |
| Producer | Sally Heaven |
Broadcasts
- Sun 24 Jan 201616:30BBC Radio 4
- Sat 30 Jan 201623:30BBC Radio 4
