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This week
Sunday 21 May 2006
Roger McGough introduces a selection of poems chosen by listeners
Featured poems
This Morning by Jon Stallworthy From: The Norton Anthology of Poetry - Third Edition Publ: Norton
Diary Moon by Paul Farley From: The Ice Age Publ: Picador
Busy Diary by Roger McGough From: Bad, Bad Cats Publ: Puffin
A Speech at the Lost and Found by Wislawa Szymborska Translated by Stanislaw Baranczac and Clare Cavanagh From: Poems, New and Collected 1957-1997 Publ: faber and faber
In Church by R.S Thomas From: R.S Thomas - selected by Anthony Thwaite Publ: Phoenix Poetry
The Heron/The Calvinist by Kenneth Steven From: Wild Horses Publ: Saint Andrews Press
The Galloping Cat by Stevie Smith From: The Collected Poems of Stevie Smith Publ: Allen Lane
A Special Odour by Brendan Kennelly From: Begin Publ: Bloodaxe Books
The Ballad of Camden Town by James Elroy Flecker From: The Collected Poems Publ: Secker & Warburg
Doctor Crippen in Love by Tobias Hill From: Zoo Publ: Oxford University Press
The Embankment (The Fantasia of a Fallen Gentleman on a Cold, Bitter Night) by T.E. Hulme From: The Oxford Book of Short Poems Publ: Oxford University Press
The Untouchables by Kate Scott From: Stitches Publ: Peterloo Poets
Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg by Richard Hugo From: The Norton Anthology of Poetry - Third Edition Publ: Norton
Love (III) by George Herbert From: The English Poems of George Herbert Publ: Dent
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