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This week
Sunday 23 October 2005
Roger McGough introduces a selection of poems chosen by listeners
Featured poems
Decaffeinated by Elizabeth Bewick From: Heartsease Publ: Peterloo Poets
The Cragsman by Geoffrey Winthrop Young From: Speak to the Hills - (anthology) Pub: Aberdeen University Press
Patterns by Amy Lowell From: The Oxford Book of American Verse Pub: Oxford University Press
To Cynthia on Concealment of Her Beauty by Sir Francis Kynaston From: The Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse Publ: Oxford
To the Not Impossible Him by Edna St Vincent Millay From: Selected Poems Publ: Carcanet
Lone Dog by Irene McLeod From: The New Oxford Book of Children's Verse Publ: Oxford
Mrs. Wiseman is not in Today by David Grubb From: An Elephant in the Room Publ: Driftwood
The Best Cigarette by Billy Collins From: Taking off Emily Dickinson's Clothes Publ: Picador
It Begins as with Razors by Jane Draycott From: The Night Tree Publ: Oxford Poets - Carcanet
Meddlesome Matty by Ann Taylor From: The Oxford Book of Children's Verse Publ: Oxford
The Wife of Carcassone by A.E Prys-Jones From: The Everyman book of Light Verse Publ: J.M.Dent & Sons Ltd
The Full Indian Rope Trick by Colette Bryce From: The New Irish Poets Publ: Bloodaxe
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