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This week
Sunday 14 May 2006
Roger McGough introduces a selection of poems chosen by listeners
Featured poems
On the Road by Bernard Spencer From: Collected Poems Publ: Oxford University Press
From Winchester by RP Hewett Unpublished
The Diverting History of John Gilpin by William Cowper From: The Poetical Works of William Cowper Publ: Oxford University Press
Ithaka by C.P Cavafy, Translated by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard From: Collected Poems Publ: Chatto & Windus
How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix by Robert Browning From: Browning Publ: Penguin
How they Brought the Good News from Aix to Ghent, or Vice Versa by W.C. Sellar and R.J. Yeatman From: Unauthorized Versions - Poems and their Parodies Publ: faber and faber
No Road by Philip Larkin From: Collected Poems Publ: faber and faber
An Old Woman of the Roads by Padraic Colum From: The New Oxford Book of Irish Verse Publ: Oxford University Press
A Halfway House by Neil Powell From: Selected Poems Publ: Carcanet
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