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Daffodils, snowmelt, green shoots and lengthening days in this spring special, presented by Roger McGough.

Daffodils, lambs, snow melt, green shoots and lengthening days... Roger McGough explores the BBC archives to find the most evocative spring poems read by some of our best actors. With poems by Alice Oswald, Laurie Lee, Robin Robertson, Philip Larkin, Kathryn Simmonds and Edward Thomas.

Producer: Mair Bosworth.

30 minutes

This Week's Poems

Thaw

By Edward Thomas

From Edward Thomas - The Annotated Collected Poems

Pub: Bloodaxe

Wood Not Yet Out

By Alice Oswald

From Woods etc.

Publisher: Faber and Faber

The Year’s Awakening

By Thomas Hardy

From The Oxford Authors – Thomas Hardy

Published by Oxford University Press

Coming

By Philip Larkin

From Philip Larkin – Collected Poems

Publisher: The Marvell Press / Faber

Primavera

By Robin Robertson

From: Wild Reckoning

Publ: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

Home Thoughts, from Abroad

By Robert Browning

From: Poems selected by WE Williams

Publ: Penguin

I So Liked Spring

By Charlotte Mew

From: Collected Poems and Prose

Publ: Carcanet

Song

By Rupert Brooke

Taken from http://www.rupertbrooke.com/poems/1912-1913/song/

Spring

By Andrew Motion

Unpublished

Spring Quiet

By Christina Rossetti

From https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/spring-quiet/

Usually March

By Kevin Nichols

From http://www.ourladyandstcolumbawallsend.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Monsignor-Kevin-Nichols.pdf

April Rise

By Laurie Lee

From Laurie Lee Selected Poems

Published by Penguin

Spring Wedding

By Andrew Motion

Taken from The Telegraph website

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1487433/Spring-Wedding.html

Spring Cleaning

By Jean Binta Breeze

From Spring Cleaning

Published by Virago Press Ltd

Recyling, April

By Kathryn Simmonds

From Sunday at the Skin Laundrette

Pub: Seren

March

By Edward Thomas

https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/march-58/

Spring by Jack Underwood

From The Poetry Review in 2015

Sap

By Roger McGough

From Roger McGough Collected Poems

Published by Viking (Penguin)

Loveliest of Trees

By AE Housman

From A Shropshire Lad

Published by Hesperus Poetry

Credits

RoleContributor
PresenterRoger McGough
ProducerMair Bosworth

Broadcasts

  • Sun 19 Mar 201716:30
  • Sat 25 Mar 201723:30