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This week
Sunday 19 February 2006
Roger McGough introduces a selection of poems chosen by listeners
Featured poems
This is the last in the current series. Poetry Please returns in May.
Unless otherwise indicated, all poems in this week's edition are by William Barnes.
Extracts from A Bit O' Sly Coorten From: Poems Grave and Gay Publ: Longmans
The Young Rhymer Snubbed From: Victorian Literature: Poetry Publ: MacMillan
White An' Blue From: Selected Poems Publ: Penguin
A Red, Red Rose By: Robert Burns From: Poems and Songs Publ: Dover Publcations
My Orcha'd in Linden Lea From: Selected Poems Publ: Penguin
The Impercipient By: Thomas Hardy From: The Oxford Authors - Thomas Hardy Publ: Oxford University Press
