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Kathryn Simmonds

Kathryn Simmonds joins Roger McGough to choose her favourite poems from the listener request database. Her selection includes poetry by RS Thomas, Charles Causley and Alice Oswald. Producer: Sally Heaven.

28 minutes

Last on

Sun 27 Oct 201916:30

This Week's Poems

Poems

By Laura Scott

From So Many Rooms

Published by Carcanet

Looking Down

By Alice Oswald

From Falling Awake

Published by Cape

The Flower

By George Herbert

From The Complete Poetry

Published by Penguin Classics

The Bright Field

By R. S. Thomas

From R.S Thomas – Later Poems 1972-1982

Published by Macmillan

oh antic God

by Lucille Clifton

From Mercy

Published by BOA Editions Ltd

Who

By Charles Causley

Sung by Jim Causley on his album ‘Cyprus Well’

I Lived in the First Century of World Wars

By Muriel Rukeyser

From The Speed of Darkness

Published by Random House

Immigrant

By Fleur Adcock

From Fleur Adcock – Poems 1960-2000

Published by Bloodaxe

Scenes From Life On Earth

by Kathryn Simmonds

It Allows a Portrait in Line Scan at Fifteen

By Les Murray

From Learning Human: New Selected Poems

Published by Carcanet

A Declaration of Need

By John Hegley

From John Hegley’s New and Selected Potatoes

Published by Bloodaxe

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  • Sun 27 Oct 201916:30