Bubble and Squeak
Roger McGough with poetry of love, hate and everything in between on this Valentine's edition of Poetry Please. Featured poets include Harold Pinter, Carol Ann Duffy and WB Yeats, and there are readings from Fiona Shaw, Alice Arnold, Paul Mundell and Burt Caesar. Producer Sally Heaven.
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This Week's Poems
Distances
By Phillippe Jaccottet
Translated by Derek Mahon
From Staying Alive – Real Poems for Unreal Times
Published by Bloodaxe
Atlas
By U A Fanthorpe
From Collected Poems 1978-2003
Published by Peterloo Poets
Sonnet XI
By Eleanor Brown
Taken from http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/12275080.DAILY_POEM_SONNET_XI/
September Sun: 1947
By David Gascoyne
From David Gascoyne – Selected Poems
Published by Enitharmon
The Flight of the Sparrow
By James Harpur
From The Monk’s Dream
Published by Anvil Press Poetry
Tree At My Window
By Robert Frost
From The Poetry of Robert Frost
Published by Jonathan Cape
But These Things Also
By Edward Thomas
From The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas
Published by Oxford University Press
The One-Legged Man
By Siegfried Sassoon
From Siegfried Sassoon - Collected Poems; 1908–1956
Published by Faber and Faber
Miners
By Wilfred Owen
From The Poems of Wilfred Owen
Published by The Hogarth Press
Where the Mind is Without Fear
(Extract from Gitanjali)
By Rabindranath Tagore
From An Invitation to Poetry: A New Favorite Poem Project Anthology
Published by W. W. Norton and Company
Winds
By Kathleen Raine
From The Collected Poems of Kathleen Raine
Published by Golgonooza
The Dream City
By Humbert Wolfe
Taken from https://thepoetrycollection.wordpress.com/humbert-wolfe-1885-1940-the-dream-city/
Water
By Philip Larkin
From Philip Larkin – Collected Poems
Published by Faber and Faber
Dover Beach
By Matthew Arnold
From The Oxford Book of Nineteenth-Century English Verse
Published by Oxford University Press
Mamble
By John Drinkwater
Taken from http://allpoetry.com/Mamble
To My Book
By Ben Jonson
From Ben Jonson – Selected Poetry
Published by Penguin
The Passionate Shepherd to his Love
By Christopher Marlowe
Taken from http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173941
The Indian Serenade
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
From An Oxford Anthology of English Poetry
Published by Oxford University Press
The Glory of the Day Was In Her Face
By James Weldon Johnson
From The Poetry of Black America; Anthology of the 20th Century
Published by Harper & Row
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Roger McGough |
| Reader | Fiona Shaw |
| Reader | Alice Arnold |
| Reader | Paul Mundell |
| Reader | Burt Caesar |
| Producer | Sally Heaven |
Broadcasts
- Sun 21 Feb 201616:30BBC Radio 4
- Sat 27 Feb 201623:30BBC Radio 4
