Owen Sheers
Roger McGough invites Welsh poet Owen Sheers to select some of his favourite poems.
The Welsh poet Owen Sheers is Roger McGough's guest choosing some of his favourite poems. He has chosen work with an ecological theme, pieces which reflect his concern for the environment. Poems include The Horses by Edwin Muir, The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry and a new poem by Poet Laureate Simon Armitage.
Producer: Maggie Ayre
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This Week's Poems
Extract from Big Arth
By Roger McGough
From Roger McGough – Collected Poems
Published by Viking
The Horses
by Edwin Muir
From Edwin Muir – Collected Poems
Published by Faber and Faber
The Carriage Horses
By Owen Sheers
Recently published in The New Statesman
The Peace of Wild Things
by Wendell Berry
From Wendell Berry - New Collected Poems
Published by Counterpoint
Extract from The Moose
by Elizabeth Bishop
From Elizabeth Bishop – Complete Poems
Published by Chatto & Windus
Extract from Autumn Journal by Louis MacNeice (section 24)
From Autumn Journal
Published by Faber & Faber
Binsey Poplars by Gerard Manley Hopkins
From The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Published by Oxford University Press
Welsh Ice by Menna Elfyn
Translated by Robert Minhinnick
From Perfect Blemish – New and Selected Poems 1995-2007
Published by Bloodaxe
Ophelia by Robert Minhinnick
From PN Review
So the Peloton Passed
By Simon Armitage
Unpublished
Broadcasts
- Sun 6 Oct 201916:30BBC Radio 4
- Sat 12 Oct 201923:30BBC Radio 4
