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This week
Sunday 15 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 Glyn.
Featured poems
Romance by Walter James Turner From: Everyman's Book of Evergreen Verse Publ: Everyman
Lines on a Young Lady's Photograph Album by Philip Larkin From: Collected Poems Publ: faber and faber
A Falling - a poem for Birmingham by Roz Goddard From: How to Dismantle a Hotel Room Publ: Coal Press Publishing
A Who Seh? by Martin Glynn Unpublished
The Day My Father Died by Mervyn Morris From: I been there, sort of Publ: Carcanet
Time Passing, Beloved by Donald Davie From: Collected Poems Publ: Carcanet
When Your Pants Begin to Go by Henry Lawson From: The New Oxford Book of Australian Verse Publ: Oxford University Press
Tenuous and Precarious by Stevie Smith From: The Colllected Poems of Stevie Smith Publ: Allen Lane
Memories in a City Cafe by Julie Boden From: Cut on the Bias Publ: Pontefract Press
To the Women of the Merrie England Coffee Houses by Simon Armitage From: Tyrannosaurus Rex versus The Corduroy Kid Publ: faber and faber
Unwelcome by Mary Coleridge From: The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse Publ: Oxford University Press
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