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	Roger McGough introduces a selection of poems chosen by listeners. Email Poetry Please if there's a poem you'd like to hear on the programme.


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	Roger McGough


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	Sunday 12 December 2004



Words, Wide Night by Carol Ann Duffy, from Selected Poems Penguin Poem for Translation by Ken Smith, from Shed: Poems 1980-2001 Bloodaxe Toast to a Lady/Evolution Langdon Smith, from Home Book of Verse Henry Holt My Many Coated Man by Laurie Lee, from Selected Poems Andre Deutsch Crickley Hill by Ivor Gurney, from Collected Poems Oxford University Press The Lime Tree Bower, My Prison by Coleridge, from Poetical Works Oxford University Press The Priest and the Mulberry Tree by Thomas Love Peacock, from The Book of a Thousand Poems Collins Educational Dawn Walkers by Jenny Joseph, from Selected Poems Bloodaxe

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