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This week
Sunday 6 November 2005
Roger McGough introduces a selection of poems chosen by listeners
Featured poems
Words by Edward Thomas From: The Collected Poems and War Diary, 1917 Publ: faber and faber
A Smugglers' Song by Rudyard Kipling From: The Definitive Edition of Rudyard Kipling's Verse Publ: Hodder & Stoughton
The Last Buccaneer by Charles Kingsley From: Poems by Charles Kingsley Publ: MacMillan & Co
The Tide River by Charles Kingsley From: Poems by Charles Kingsley Publ: MacMillan & Co
Stormcock in Elder by Ruth Pitter From: Rith Pitter: Poems Publ: The Cresset Press
One Foot in Eden by Edwin Muir From: Collected Poems Publ: faber and faber
A Chinese Sage by Elizabeth Jennings From: Collected Poems 1953 - 1985 Publ: Carcanet
The Fire-Autumn by Les Murray From: Collected Poems Publ: Carcanet
Moonlit Apples by John Drinkwater From: The Collected Poems - 1917-1922 Vol II Publ: Sidgwick and Johnson
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