Wendy Cope
Roger McGough is joined by Wendy Cope, who shares a selection of her favourite poems from the Poetry Please archive of listeners' requests.
Roger McGough is joined by Wendy Cope, with a selection of her favourite poems from the Poetry Please archive of listeners' requests. Choices include requests for poems by A E Housman, Philip Larkin, W H Auden, Fleur Adcock, Edna St Vincent Millay and Charles Causley.
Wendy Cope has published several volumes of poetry including Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis and Serious Concerns. A remarkable talent for parody and for using humour to address grave topics, she also recites some of her new poems from her recent collection, Anecdotal Evidence (Faber 2018).
Producer: Sarah Addezio.
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This Week's Poems
A Shropshire Lad XXXII
by A.E. Housman
Published by Hesperus Poetry
The Trees
by Philip Larkin
From Philip Larkin – Collected Poems
Published by Faber & Faber
In Memory of W.B. Yeats
by W.H.Auden
From W.H. Auden – Collected Shorter Poems 1927-1957
Published by Faber & Faber
Waterloo Bridge / After the Lunch
By Wendy Cope
From Two Cures for Love – Selected Poems 1979-2006
Published by Faber & Faber
Nothing
by James Fenton
From Yellow Tulips – Poems 1968-2011
Published by Faber & Faber
Was Est Ist
by Erich Fried
Translated Stuart Hood
From Love Poems by Erich Fried
Published by One World Classics
Water
by Fleur Adcock
Looking Back
Published by Oxford Paperbacks
Field Mouse’s Nest
by John Clare
From John Clare (Selected by Paul Farley)
Published by Faber & Faber
Ashes of Life
by Edna St Vincent Millay
From Edna St Vincent Millay – Collected Poems
Published by Harper Perennial
Eden Rock
by Charles Causley
From Charles Causley – Collected Poems 1951-1997
Published by Macmillan
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Roger McGough |
| Interviewed Guest | Wendy Cope |
| Producer | Sarah Addezio |
Broadcasts
- Sun 5 Aug 201816:30BBC Radio 4
- Sat 11 Aug 201823:30BBC Radio 4
