40th anniversary special with Cerys Matthews

To Poetry Please

By Roger McGough

Extract from Joined Up Writing

By Roger McGough

Extract from Roger McGough’s poem for Charles Causley on his 70th birthday

Eden Rock

By Charles Causley

Collected Poems 1951-1997

Published by Macmillan

A Child is Singing

By Adrian Mitchell

From Come on Everybody

Published by Bloodaxe

Extract from Figs from Thistles: First Fig

By Edna St. Vincent Millay

From Collected Poems

Published by Harper Perennial Modern Classics

Travel

By Edna St Vincent Millay

From Collected Poems

Published by Harper Perennial Modern Classics

The First Men on Mercury

By Edwin Morgan

From Edwin Morgan – Collected Poems

Published by Carcanet

Goblin Market

By Christina Rossetti

From Christina Rossetti – Selected Poems

Published by Penguin Classics

A Child’s Nightmare

By Robert Graves

From Robert Graves - The Complete Poems

Published by Penguin Modern Classics

An Ordinary Day

By Norman MacCaig

From Norman MacCaig - Collected Poems

Published by Chatto & Windus

The Way Things Are

By Roger McGough

From The Way Things Are

Published by Viking

What is Now Will Soon be Past

By Yrsa Daley-Ward

From Bone

Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform