Mike Garry
Roger McGough is joined by Manchester poet Mike Garry to hear his poetry choices.
Roger McGough is joined by Manchester poet Mike Garry to hear his poetry choices. For Mike music is the key to poetry, a way of introducing it to people who believe it's not for them. Mike himself has collaborated with different musicians including New Order and Philip Glass.
Producer: Maggie Ayre
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This Week's Poems
On the Ning Nang Nong
By Spike Milligan
From The Nation’s Favourite Comic Poems
Published by BBC
Timothy Winters
By Charles Causley
Taken from Collected Poems 1951 – 1997
Published by McMillan
“You were there at the start aged 5”
By Mike Garry
Unpublished
Sonny’s Lettah
By Linton Kwesi Johnson
Taken from the CD Forces of Victory
Label: Island
He Who Owns the Whistle Rules the World
By Roger McGough
From In the Glassroom
Published by Jonathan Cape
Invisible Kisses
By Lemn Sissay
Taken from Morning Breaks in the Elevator
Published by Payback Press
Pity the Plight
By John Cooper Clarke
Taken from Luckiest Guy Alive
Published by Picador
Extract from The Mask of Anarchy
By Percy Bysshe Shelley
From Shelley’s Poetry and Prose
Published by W.W. Norton
Extract from Millenium Poem: Killing Time
By Simon Armitage
Published by Faber & Faber
Sonnet no. 8 from Clearances
By Seamus Heaney
Taken from Open Ground – Poems 1966-1996
Published by Faber & Faber
The Good Morrow
By John Donne
Taken from Donne – Poems and Prose
Published by David Campbell Publishers
Brendan Gallagher
By Jackie Kay
Taken from Two’s Company
Published by Blackie
Broadcast
- Sun 13 Oct 201916:30BBC Radio 4
