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This week
Sunday 7 May 2006
Roger McGough introduces a selection of poems chosen by listeners
Featured poems
The Long Garden by Patrick Kavanagh From: The Oxford Book of Garden Verse Publ: Oxford
Gardeners' Question Time by Steve Ellis From: Scanning the Century: The Penguin Book of the Twentieth Century in Poetry Publ: Penguin
The Cockney's Garden/If it Wasn't for the 'Ouses In Between by Edgar Bateman From: The Oxford Book of Garden Verse Publ: Oxford
The Seed Shop by Muriel Stuart From: A Book of Town Verse Publ: Geoffrey Cumberlege - Oxford
Digging by Seamus Heaney From: Death of a Naturalist Publ: faber and faber
The Lost Leader by Robert Browning From: Browning Publ: Penguin
January 1940 by Roy Fuller From: The Middle of a War Publ: Hogarth Press
After Great Pain by Emily Dickinson From: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson Publ: faber and faber
Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes by Billy Collins From: Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes Publ: Picador
Litany by Billy Collins From: Nine Horses Publ: Picador
Swing Song by Louis Macneice From: The Collected Poems of Louis Macneice Publ: faber and faber
On Time For Once by Brian Patten From: Vanishing Trick Publ: George Allen & Unwin
Nothing by James Fenton From: Children In Exile Publ: The Salamander Press
As well as the Bible and Shakespeare by U.A Fanthorpe From: Neck Verse Publ: Peterloo Poets
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