Salena Godden
Salena Godden talks to Roger McGough about her favourite poetry, with a selection including Dorothy Parker, Joelle Taylor and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Producer Sally Heaven.
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This Week's Poems
Soup
by Salena Godden
From Pessimism Is For Lightweights
Published by Rough Trade Books
Mod Poem
by Jock Scot
Taken from the CD ‘The Caledonian Blues’
Label: Invada Records
Cat no: INV016
Extract from By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept
by Elizabeth Smart
Published by 4th Estate/Harper Collins UK
Kubla Khan
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
From Coleridge – Poetical Works
Published by Oxford University Press
Extract From New Stole
By Tricky Featuring Francesca Belmonte
Taken from the CD Ununiform
Label: NoPaper Records
Whitey on the Moon
by Gil Scott Heron
Taken from the CD The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Plus)
Label: Ace Records
To Whom It May Concern
by Adrian Mitchell
From Come on Everybody; Poems 1953 – 2008
Published by Bloodaxe
Echo
by Raymond Antrobus
Taken from The Perseverance
Published by Penned In the Margins
Famous Blue Raincoat
by Leonard Cohen
Taken from the CD Closing Time
Label: Sony
Everything You Have Ever Lost
by Joelle Taylor
Taken from Songs My Enemy Taught Me
Published by Out Spoken Press
Resume
by Dorothy Parker
From The Collected Dorothy Parker
Published by Penguin
Broadcasts
- Sun 17 Mar 201916:30BBC Radio 4
- Sat 23 Mar 201923:30BBC Radio 4
