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08/05/2016

Roger McGough introduces poems requested by listeners.

30 minutes

Last on

Sat 14 May 201623:30

This Week's Poems

On the Grasshopper and Cricket

By John Keats

From The Complete Poems [John Keats]

Published by Penguin

Summer

By Christina Rossetti

From Selected Poems of Christina Rossetti

Published by Wordsworth

One Cigarette

By Edwin Morgan

From Edwin Morgan – Collected Poems

Published by Carcanet

Wessex Heights

By Thomas Hardy

From The Oxford Authors – Thomas Hardy

Published by Oxford University Press

The Catch

By Simon Armitage

From Kid

Published by Faber and Faber

The Garden

By Andrew Marvell

From Andrew Marvell – Selected Poems

Published by Carcanet

A Wall

By Dannie Abse

From Welsh Retrospective

Published by Seren

Suicide off Egg Rock

By Sylvia Plath

From Sylvia Plath – Collected Poems

Published by Faber and Faber

In My Craft or Sullen Art

By Dylan Thomas

(archive recording)

From Dylan Thomas: The Poems

Published by J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd

A Child Half Asleep

By Tony Connor

Taken from https://webofnotes.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/a-child-half-asleep.pdf

In Mrs Tilscher's Class

By Carol Ann Duffy

From Selected Poems

Published by Penguin

Jabberwocky

By Lewis Carroll

From A Choice of Comic and Curious Verse

Published by Allen Lane

My Own Heart

By Gerard Manley Hopkins

From Hopkins – Poems and Prose

Published by Everyman’s Library

An Arundel Tomb

By Philip Larkin

From Philip Larkin – Collected Poems

Published by Faber and Faber

Credit

RoleContributor
PresenterRoger McGough

Broadcasts

  • Sun 8 May 201616:30
  • Sat 14 May 201623:30