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Sean Hewitt

Roger McGough returns with more listener poetry requests.

Produced by Sally Heaven for BBC Audio

28 minutes

Last on

Tue 10 Sep 202423:00

This Week's Poems

Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal, Now the Rose (From The Princess)

By Alfred Lord Tennyson

From: Alfred Lord Tennyson – Selected Poems

Published by Penguin Classics

Mosaic of the Emperor’s Dream

By Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin

From Collected Poems - Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin

Published by Wake Forest University Press

be/cause

By Nidhi Zak/Aria Eipe

From Auguries of a Minor God

Published by Faber & Faber

Tiara

By Mark Doty

From Bethlehem in Broad Daylight: Poems

Published by David R. Godine Publisher Inc

The Dragon

By Brigit Pegeen Kelly

From Song

Published by BOA Editions Ltd

The Children of Stare

By Walter de la Mare

From The Collected Poems of Walter de la Mare

Published by Faber & Faber

We Didn’t Mean to Kill Mr Flynn

By Seán Hewitt

From Rapture’s Road

Published by Jonathan Cape

House

By Hannah Lowe

From The Kids

Published by Bloodaxe Books

Song for a Spent 100W Bulb

By Jacob Sam-La Rose

From Jacob’s debut collection Breaking Silence

Published by Bloodaxe Books

Recording courtesy of The Poetry Archive

Moonrise

By Gerard Manley Hopkins

From Gerard Manley Hopkins The Major Works

Published by Oxford University Press

Beatitude (Ah, bright wings)

By Fiona Benson

from Vertigo & Ghost

Published by Jonathan Cape


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