Being Lost
Roger McGough presents a selection of listeners' requests for poems about being lost. Suggestions range from poems that guide you through the forests' depths, to those reflecting inner labyrinths.
Producer: Eliza Lomas.
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This Week's Poems
Lost
By David Wagoner
From Traveling Light: Collected and New Poems
Published by University of Illinois Press
In The Evening
By Adrienne Rich
From Leaflets
Published by W. W. Norton & Company
To Know The Dark
By Wendell Berry
From The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry
Published by Counterpoint
The Moon And The Yew Tree
By Sylvia Plath
From Ariel
Published by Faber and Faber
Not Waving But Drowning
By Stevie Smith
From Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith
Published by Faber and Faber
I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud
By William Wordsworth
From Poems In Two Volumes
What If This Road
By Sheenagh Pugh
From What If This Road And Other Poems
Published by Gwasg Carreg Gwalch
In Praise of Walking
By Thomas A. Clarke
From The Hundred Thousand Places
Published by Carcanet Press
Of The Terrible Doubts of Appearances
By Walt Whitman
From Leaves of Grass
Self-published
The Things That Matter
By Edith Nesbit
Taken from Poetry by Heart
The Mower To The Glow-Worms
By Andrew Marvell
From Miscellaneous Poems 1681
Published by Scolar Press
Lost
By Chu Shu-chen
From One Hundred Poems from the Chinese
Published by New Directions Publishing
Lost
By John Galsworthy
Taken from Columbia Granger's World of Poetry
A Poem Just For Me
By Roger McGough
From All The Best: The Selected Poems of Roger McGough
Published by Puffin
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Roger McGough |
| Producer | Eliza Lomas |
Broadcasts
- Sun 21 May 201716:30BBC Radio 4
- Sat 27 May 201723:30BBC Radio 4
