Fleur Adcock
The guest curator is Fleur Adcock, and her choices include To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence by James Elroy Flecker, Old Man by Edward Thomas and Fleur’s own poem A Visiting Angel. Fleur brings along a sprig of something from her garden for Roger. Producer Sally Heaven.
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This Week's Poems
A Visiting Angel
By Fleur Adcock
Taken from “Poems 1960 - 2000”
Published by Bloodaxe
To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence
By James Elroy Flecker
Taken from “Selected Poems of James Elroy Flecker”
Published by Rowan Books
The Deadly Sins and the Holy Virtues – No 7 – Humility
By Lorraine Mariner
Taken from “There Will Be No More Nonsense”
Published by Picador
Badly Chosen Lover
By Rosemary Tonks
Taken from “Bedouin of the London Evening; Collected Poems”
Published by Bloodaxe
I Should like to be Buried in a Summer Forest
By Helen Dunmore
Taken from “Counting Backwards: Poems 1975 – 2017”
Published by Bloodaxe
Like Rain
By Emily Dickinson
Taken from “The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson”
Published by Faber and Faber
Extract from ‘Perfume’
By Roger McGough
From “Roger McGough – Collected Poems”
Published by Viking / Penguin
Old Man
By Edward Thomas
Taken from “Edward Thomas – Collected Poems”
Published by Faber and Faber
The Highwayman
By Alfred Noyes
Taken from “The Highwayman”
Published by OUP Oxford
Broadcasts
- Sun 19 May 201916:30BBC Radio 4 FM
- Sat 25 May 201923:30BBC Radio 4
