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This week
Sunday 01 October 2006
Roger McGough returns with your requests for favourite nature poems read by Andrew Sachs, Jenny Coverack and Philip Franks plus the winners of BBC Wildlife Magazine's annual Poetry Competition.
If you would like to be a member of the audience at the Poetry Please 'live' event on Sunday 8th October, please contact The Birmingham Box Office or call 0121 303 2323
Featured poems
River Mates by Padraic Colum From: An Anthology of World Poetry Publ: Cassell and Company Ltd
The Fly by William Blake From: (Songs of Experience) The Poetical Works of William Blake Publ: Oxford University Press
Moth by Clifford Dyment From: Selected Poems Publ: Falcon Press
Be a Butterfly by Grace Nichols From: Everybody Got a Gift Publ: A& C Black
Mafia Cats by Roger McGough From: Bad, Bad Cats Publ: Viking
The Rum Tum Tugger by T.S. Eliot From: The Faber Book of Nonsense Verse Publ: faber and faber
Garden Delights by Hannah Gillingham Winner of the Under 7 Category - BBC Wildlife Magazine Poetry Competition
The Grey Squirrel by Humbert Wolfe From: The Golden Journey - Poems for Young People Publ: Evans Brothers Limited
A Runnable Stag by John Davidson From: Everyman's Book of Evergreen Verse Publ: Everyman
I saw a Jolly Hunter by Charles Causley From: Collected Poems Publ: MacMillan
The Horses by Ted Hughes From: New selected Poems 1957-1994 Publ: faber and faber
Old Innocence by Caroline Ackroyd From: Toad Lichen Publ: The Littoral Press
Odyseuss in London by Derek Adams Winner of BBC Wildlife Magazine Poetry Competition
Poem in October by Dylan Thomas From: Collected Poems 1934-1953 Publ: Everyman
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