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This week
Sunday 5 February 2006
Roger McGough introduces a selection of poems chosen by listeners
Featured poems
The Old Sailor by A.A. Milne From: Now We Are Six Publ: Mammoth
The Queen of Sheba by Kathleen Jamie From: Mr and Mrs Scotland Are Dead Publ: Bloodaxe Books
Part Eight of Zero Gravity by Gwyneth Lewis From: Zero Gravity Publ: Bloodaxe Books
Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold From: Selected Poems Publ: Fyfield Books
Thistles by Ted Hughes From: New Selected Poems 1957 - 1994 Publ: faber and faber
Hallaig by Sorley MacLean From: The New Penguin Book of English Verse
Remembrances by John Clare From: The Oxford Authors - John Clare Publ: Oxford
The One by Patrick Kavanagh From: Collected Poems Publ: Martin Brian & O'Keefe
Opening Section of Hawkwood by Ken Smith From: Terra Publ: Bloodaxe
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