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Miscellany

Roger McGough presents a miscellany of listeners poetry requests. Poets include John Clare, WH Davies, Laurence Lerner and Olive Ritch. Producer Sally Heaven.

30 minutes

Last on

Sat 4 Jun 201623:30

This Week's Poems

In Time of the Breaking of Nations

by Thomas Hardy

From The Oxford Authors – Thomas Hardy

Published by Oxford University Press

The Pier-Glass

By Robert Graves

From Robert Graves – Collected Poems

Published by Oxford University Press

Extract from Mementos

by Charlotte Bronte

From The Brontes

Published by Everyman Poetry

On the Hill

by Alfred Lord Tennyson

From Alfred Lord Tennyson – Complete Works

Published by Delphi Classics

I'll Dream Upon the Days to Come

by John Clare

The Later Poems of John Clare, 1837–1864, Volume II

Published by Clarendon Press

A Great Time

by WH Davies

From Modern British Poetry

Published by Harcourt, Brace

Kin

by Deborah Harvey

Taken from http://deborahharvey.blogspot.co.uk/2010/11/kin.html

The Hand Game

by Olive Ritch

Taken from http://www.poetrysoc.com/content/npc30/npc03/

Rembrandt Addresses His Mirror

By Laurence Lerner

From Rembrandt’s Mirror by Laurence Lerner

Published by Vanderbilt University Press

The Ancient World

by Mark Doty

Taken from http://www.poemhunter.com/best-poems/mark-doty/the-ancient-world/

Judging Distances

By Henry Reed

From The Bloodaxe Book of 20th Century Poetry; from Britain and Ireland

Published by Bloodaxe

Nothing Twice

by Wislawa Szymborska translated by Clare Cavangh and Stanislaw Barranczak

From Wislawa Szymborska – Poems New and Collected 1957-1997

Published by Faber and Faber

Credit

RoleContributor
PresenterRoger McGough

Broadcasts

  • Sun 29 May 201616:30
  • Sat 4 Jun 201623:30