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This week
Sunday 16 October 2005
Roger McGough introduces a selection of poems chosen by listeners
Featured poems
I Had Rather Be A Woman by Daphne Schiller From: No Holds Barred – The Raving Beauties Choose New Poems by Women Publ: The Women’s Press
I Will Go With My Father A-Ploughing by Joseph Campbell From: An Anthology of Irish Literature Publ: New York University Press
Song to the Men of England by Percy Bysshe Shelley From: The Oxford Book of Work Publ: Oxford
The Song of the Shirt by Thomas Hood From: The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse Publ: Oxford
When I Was An Arcade Cashier by Paul Bura From: The Drunk on the Train Collection Publ: The Bosgo Press - or see Paul Bura for further details
Dictation by Kathryn Simmonds From: Snug Publ: Smith/ Doorstop Books
Slough by John Betjeman From: Collected Poems Publ: John Murray
Eighties, Nineties by Simon Armitage
In My Craft or Sullen Art by Dylan Thomas From: Collected Poems 1934-1952 Publ: J.M Dent & Sons Ltd
In The Theatre by Dannie Abse From: White Coat, Purple Coat Publ: Hutchinson
