Dusk 'til Dawn
Roger McGough presents a selection of listeners' requests for poems to take us through the night, from dusk 'til dawn.
Roger McGough presents a selection of listeners' requests for poems to take us through the night, from dusk 'til dawn. Poems of sun rise and sunset; of twilight and the dawn's early light. Of 3am worries and deep, deep sleep.
We watch the sun go down over the sea with Norman Nicholson and Siegfried Sassoon's lulls us to sleep. We lie awake fretting with Fleur Adcock and wake on a cold narrowboat with Jo Bell. John Donne helps us convince our other half to call in sick to work and come back to bed, and find that Robert Burns is not a morning person.
Readers: John Mackay, Siobhan Redmond and Barbara Flynn
Producer: Mair Bosworth.
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This Week's Poems
Sea to the West
By Norman Nicholson
From Being Alive
Published by Bloodaxe
Slumber Song
By Siegfried Sassoon
From Siegfried Sassoon – Collected Poems
Published by Faber & Faber
Sleepy Time
By Norman MacCaig
From the Poems of Norman MacCaig
Published by Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
Slow Evening
By Norman MacCaig
From the Poems of Norman MacCaig
Published by Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
Less Than a Hundred Hours
By Sara Berkeley
Published by The Gallery Press
Words, Wide Night
By Carol Ann Duffy
From The Other Country
Published by Picador
The Thought Fox
By Ted Hughes
From Ted Hughes – New Selected Poems 1957-1994
Published by Faber & Faber
True Love
By Sharon Olds
From Staying Alive
Published by Bloodaxe
Catching up on sleep
By Roger McGough
Taken from http://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poetry/poems/catching-sleep
Things
By Fleur Adcock
From Fleur Adcock – Poems 1960-2000
Published by Bloodaxe
Roe-Deer
by Ted Hughes
From Ted Hughes – New Selected Poems 1957-1994
Published Faber & Faber
Happiness
By Raymond Carver
From All of Us
Published by Harvill Press
Morning
By Billy Collins
Taken from Picnic, Lightning
University of Pittsburgh Press.
Up in the Morning Early
By Robert Burns
Taken from http://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poetry/poems/morning-early
Frozen In
By Jo Bell
From Kith
Published by Nine Arches Press
Break of Day
By John Donne
Taken from https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/51783
Begin
By Brian Kennelly
Staying Alive
Bloodaxe Books
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Roger McGough |
| Reader | John MacKay |
| Reader | Siobhan Redmond |
| Reader | Barbara Flynn |
| Producer | Mair Bosworth |
Broadcasts
- Sun 5 Mar 201716:30BBC Radio 4 FM
- Sat 11 Mar 201723:30BBC Radio 4
