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This week
Sunday 12 November 2006
Roger McGough presents poems for remembrance, with works by Pablo Neruda, Evangeline Patterson and frontline poets Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen and Alun Lewis. With readers Josette Simon, Patrick Romer and Rupert Wickham.
This is the last in the current series. Poetry Please returns on 17th December. Please keep your requests coming in.
Featured poems
I'm Explaining a Few Things by Pablo Neruda, translated by Nathaniel Tarn From: Selected Poems - Pablo Neruda Publ: Penguin
Inspection by Wilfred Owen From: The Poems of Wilfred Owen Publ: The Hogarth Press
Breakfast by Wilfrid Gibson From: Collected Poems 1905-1925 Publ: MacMillan and Co
Concert Party by Siegfried Sassoon From: A New Anthology of Great War Verse Publ: Buchan & Enright
Naming of Parts from Lessons of the War by Henry Reed From: The Oxford Book of War Poetry Publ: Oxford University Press
Still I Rise by Maya Angelou From: The Complete Collected Poems Publ: Virago
All Day it Has Rained by Alun Lewis From: The New Oxford Book of English Verse Publ: Oxford University Press
Missing by John Pudney From: Collected Poems Publ: Putnam
History Teacher in the Warsaw Ghetto Rising by Evangeline Patterson From: Chaos of the Night - Women's Poetry and Verse of the Second World War Publ: Virago
A Blackbird Singing by RS Thomas From: The Oxford Book of Welsh Verse in English Publ: Oxford University Press
September Song by Christopher Logue From: Selected Poems Publ: faber and faber
Keeping Quiet by Pablo Neruda, translated by Alastair Reid From: Extravagaria Publ: Jonathan Cape
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