If you'd like to suggest a particular poem for possible inclusion in the programme, contact us - don't forget to tell us why you'd like to hear your choice...
This week
Sunday 9 October 2005
Roger McGough introduces a selection of poems chosen by listeners
Featured poems
Horoscope by Robert Dickinson From The Rialto Magazine, 1995 Issue No 32
Lucifer in Starlight by George Meredith From the Oxford Book of Victorian Verse
Star Talk by Robert Graves From The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse
Extract from Romeo & Juliet From The Portable Shakespeare Penguin
The Far Side of Your Moon by Robert Graves From his Collected Poems published by Cassell
His Last Sonnet by Keats From Ode to a Nightingale and Other Poems' Michael O'Mara Books
On First Looking into Chapman's Homer by Keats From The Poetical Works of John Keats Oxford University Press
Galactic Love Poem by Adrian Henri From his Collected Poems Allison and Busby
Night by Moya Cannon Gallery Press
Stars by Emily Bronte From Selected Bronte poems Basil Blackwell
High Flight by John Gillespie Magee From The Complete Works of JG Magee - The Pilot Poet This England Books
For Johnny by John Pudney From The Oxford Book of War Poetry
Stars by Martin Lings From Collected Poems Archetype
Constellations by Neil Rollinson From Spanish Fly Cape
Sonnet 'I could not stop for thinking of the sky..' by John Masefield From Sea Fever Fyfield
Solar Creation by Charles Madge From Of Love, Time and Places Anvil Press Poetry
Requiem by RL Stevenson From Everyman's Book of Victorian Verse
To The Moon by Shelley From The Golden Treasury Oxford
When I Heard the Learned Astronomer by Walt Whitman From his Complete Poems Penguin
The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites
