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This week
Sunday 5 November 2006
Roger McGough presents a selection of requests for poems which explore the complexities of relationships. With poems by R.S Thomas, Carol-Ann Duffy and D H Lawrence. With readers Josette Simon, Patrick Romer and Rupert Wickham.
Featured poems
Fireworks by Amy Lowell From: The Complete Poetical Works of Amy Lowell Publ: Houghton Mifflin
For a Child by Thomas Blackburn From: A Smell of Burning Publ: Putnam
Your Dog Dies by Raymond Carver From: All of Us - The Collected Poems Publ: The Harvill Press
Miles Away by Carol Ann Duffy From: Selected Poems Publ: Penguin
A Marriage by RS Thomas From: Collected Later Poems 1988-2000 Publ: Bloodaxe Books
Aubade by Philip Larkin From: Collected Poems Publ: faber and faber
Stanzas 18-21 from Adonais - an elegy on the death of John Keats by Shelley From: The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Publ: Oxford University Press
After Apple Picking by Robert Frost From: The Poetry of Robert Frost Publ: Jonathan Cape
The People Upstairs by Ogden Nash From: Candy is Dandy Publ: Methuen
Another Reason Why I Don't Keep a Gun in the House by Billy Collins From: Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes Publ: Picador
Mosquito by D.H Lawrence From: The Rattle Bag anthology Publ: faber and faber
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