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 17 December 2006
Roger McGough opens a new series with gifts a-plenty, including treats from U.A Fanthorpe, Laurie Lee and Elizabeth Jennings, in this seasonal edition of Poetry Please. There is a tale of thespian misbehaviour during the school nativity and a salute to some of the less glamorous aspects of the season, like sorting out the Christmas tree lights. Robert Louis Stevenson tells us of windswept nostalgic thoughts of times long gone, and other offerings include gems from Carol Ann Duffy and Benjamin Zephaniah. The readers are Tom Lawrence, Kate Littlewood and Patrick Romer.
Featured poems
December by Carol Ann Duffy From: Rapture Publ: Picador
'The Shepherd' and 'Last Fruits' both by Edward Kaulfuss Poems sent in by listener. Originally published in The New Beacon Magazine, a journal of The Royal National Institute for the Blind
The Tree by U.A. Fanthorpe From: Christmas Poems Publ: Peterloo Poets
The Circuit by John Mole From: Selected Poems Publ: Sinclair-Stevenson
The Singers by John Mole From: Selected Poems Publ: Sinclair-Stevenson
School Nativity by Rosamund Browne Rosamund Browne's webpage is at www.timeforrhyme.co.uk
Christmas Landscape by Laurie Lee From: Selected Poems Publ: Andrew Deutsch
The Right Givers by Elizabeth Jennings From: In the Meantime Publ: Carcanet
Six Things for Christmas by John May From: Messages - A Book of Poems Publ: faber and faber
A Good Idea for Wintry Weather by Libby Houston From: All Change Publ: Oxford University Press
Talking Turkeys by Benjamin Zephaniah From: Talking Turkeys Publ: Penguin
Christmas by Leonard Clarke From: The Voice of Poetry Publ: Heinemann
In Ceylon by Richard Powers Poem sent in by listener. Originally published in Forces newspaper SEAC
The Snowman by Yvonne Davies Unpublished
The Trouble with Snowmen by Roger McGough From: Collected Poems Publ: Viking
Christmas at Sea by Robert Louis Stevenson From: The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse Publ: Oxford University Press
The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites
