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This week
Sunday 4 June 2006
Roger McGough introduces a selection of poems chosen by listeners
Featured poems
Old Tongue by Jackie Kay From: Life Mask Publ: Bloodaxe Books
North and South by Linda France From: Red Publ: Bloodaxe Books
Them and Uz by Tony Harrison From: Selected Poems Publ: Penguin Books
Bans a Killin by Louise Bennett (Miss Lou) From: The Adventure of English by Melvyn Bragg Publ: Sceptre
Following a Lark; A Country Boy Goes to School by George Mackay Brown From: The Collected Poems of George Mackay Brown Publ: John Murray
Schule in June by Robert Bain From: A Book of Twentieth Century Scots Verse Publ: Gowans and Grey 1929
Daylight Robbery by Paul Henry From: captive audience Publ: seren
I am Very Bothered by Simon Armitage From: Selected Poems Publ: faber and faber
Half-Caste by John Agard From: Get Back, Pimple! Publ: Puffin Books
Daybreak in Alabama by Langston Hughes From: The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes Publ: Vintage Classics
Twice Shy by Seamus Heaney From: Death of a Naturalist Publ: faber and faber
Come and Be My Baby by Maya Angelou From: The Complete Collected Poems Publ: Virago
Text By Carol Ann Duffy From: Rapture Publ: Picador
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