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 12 February 2006
Roger McGough introduces a selection of poems chosen by listeners
Featured poems
The Redness of Poetry by Carole Satyamurti From: Stitching the Dark - New & Selected Poems Publ: Bloodaxe Books
I am Cherry Alive, the Little Girl Sang by Delmore Schwartz From: Selected Poems (1938-1958) Summer Knowledge Publ: New Directions
Red Boots On by Kit Wright From: Poems 1974-1983 Publ: Hutchinson
There's Nothing Like the Sun by Edward Thomas From: The Collected Poems Publ: Oxford
Swineherd by Eiléan Ni Chuilleanáin From: Modern Irish Poetry Publ: Sphere Books Ltd
Girls Laughing by Ruth Bidgood From: Lighting Candles Publ: Poetry Wales Press
Great Moments by Gabriel Celaya, translated by Robert Mezey From: Scanning the Century Publ: Penguin
The Ice-Cream Man by Michael Longley From: Selected Poems Publ: Cape Poetry
The Almond Tree by Jon Stallworthy From: The Norton Anthology of Poetry (Third Edition) Publ: Norton
The Arrival of the Bee Box by Sylvia Plath From: Collected Poems Publ: faber and faber
Large Red Man Reading by Wallace Stevens From: The Collected Poems Publ: faber and faber
The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams From: The Collected Poems I - 1909-1939 Publ: Carcanet
The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites
