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This week
Sunday 1 January 2006
Roger McGough introduces a selection of poems chosen by listeners
Featured poems
The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy From: The Oxford Authors Publ: Oxford University Press
The Solitary Thrush by Giacamo Leopardi translated by JG Nichols. From: The Canti Publ: Carcanet
To the Cuckoo by Michael Bruce From: The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1918 Publ: Oxford University Press
The Death of the Bird by AD Hope From: The Faber Book of Modern Australian Verse Publ: Faber and Faber
Wild Swans at Coole by W.B.Yeats From: W.B Yeats - The Major Works Publ: Oxford University Press
The Cranes by Anne Ridler From: Collected Poems Publ: Carcanet
Ducks by FW Harvey From: Poetry Please anthology Publ: J.M Dent and Sons Ltd
The Lark Ascending by George Meredith From: The Penguin Book of Bird Poetry Publ: Penguin
To the Nightingale by William Cowper From: The Poetical Works of William Cowper Publ: Oxford University Press
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