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This week
Sunday 08 October 2006
Roger McGough presents your requests from Birmingham's Book Festival performed by Phyllida Nash, Michael Fenton Stevens and guest poets Julie Boden and Martin Glynn.
Featured poems
The Nation by Roy Fisher From: The Long and the Short of It, Poems 1955-2005 Publ: Bloodaxe Books
Refugee Blues from Twe;ve Songs by W H Auden. From: Collected Shorter Poems 1927-1957 Publ: faber and faber
Birmingham Rhapsody by Julie Boden From: Cut on the Bias Publ: Pontefract Press
Mariana in the Moated Grange by Alfred Lord Tennyson From: The Works of Alfred Lord Tennyson Publ: MacMillan & Co
You Are Old Father William by Lewis Carroll From: The Chatto Book of Nonsense Poetry Publ: Chatto & Windus
Luv Dub by Martin Glyn Unpublished
The Deep Supermarket, next door to Ajay’s by Paul Durcan. From: Daddy, Daddy Publ: The Blackstaff Press
Birmingham by Louis MacNeice. From: Collected Poems Publ: faber and faber
Overheard on a Saltmarsh by Harold Monro From: The Book of a Thousand Poems Publ: Collins Educational
Sometimes by Sheena Pugh. From: Selected Poems Publ: Seren
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