
08/05/2016
Roger McGough introduces poems requested by listeners.
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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
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Roger McGough |
Broadcasts
- Sun 8 May 201616:30BBC Radio 4
- Sat 14 May 201623:30BBC Radio 4