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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 3 July 2005



Forgetfulness by Billy Collins, from Staying Alive Bloodaxe Donal Og, anon (tr) Lady Augusta Gregory, from The Rattle Bag Faber & Faber The Twa Corbies, anon, from The Oxford Book of English Verse English Weather, anon (text supplied by listener) Fair Helen of Kirconnell, anon, from The Oxford Book of English Verse O Western Wind, anon, from Common Ground Carcanet Bring us in good ale, anon, from Early English Lyrics Amorous, Divine, Moral and Trivial Sidgwick & Jackson A Song to My Son, anon (text supplied by listener) The Vicar of Bray, anon, from The New Oxford Book of English Verse Your Smile, anon (text supplied by listener) Do not stand at my Grave and Weep, anon, from internet A Nut Tree, anon, from The Book of a Thousand Poems Collins Educational

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