Cities
Roger McGough takes a poetic stroll through the streets of the city, from Liverpool to Bombay, and with the help of poets including Frank O'Hara, Imtiaz Dharker and TS Eliot.
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This Week's Poems
The Gateway to the Atlantic
by Roger McGough
From Slapstick
Published by Puffin
Wings over NYC
By Kathleen Jamie
From The Bonniest Companion
Published by Picador
Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
By William Wordsworth
From Wordsworth – Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney
Published by Faber & Faber
Another Westminster Bridge
By Alice Oswald
From London – A History in Verse
Published by The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Up at a Villa—Down in the City
By Robert Browning
From A Centenary Selection From Robert Browning’s Poetry
Published by The Browning Institute and Constable
Rouen
By May Wedderburn Cannan
From The New Oxford Book of War Poetry
Published by Oxford University Press
Extract from ‘The Burial of the Dead’ From The Waste Land
By TS Eliot
From London – A History in Verse
Published by The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
The Day Lady Died
By Frank O'Hara
From Lunch Poems
Published by City Lights Books
Berlin Posthumous
By Durs Grünbein
Translated by Michael Hofmann
Taken from http://www.mptmagazine.com/poem/berlin-posthumous-368/
Hiraeth, Old Bombay
By Imtiaz Dharker
From Over the Moon
Published by Bloodaxe Books
The Streets
by Jorge Luis Borges
Translated by Stephen Kessler
From Jorge Luis Borges - Selected Poems
Published by Penguin
The Cathedral Builders
by John Ormond
From The Penguin Book of English Christian Verse
Published by Penguin
Credit
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Roger McGough |
Broadcasts
- Sun 5 Feb 201716:30BBC Radio 4
- Sat 11 Feb 201723:30BBC Radio 4
