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This week
Sunday 29 January 2006
Roger McGough introduces a selection of poems chosen by listeners
Featured poems
Darling Fool Child by Kate Scott From: Stitches Publ: Peterloo Poets
A Mother Worries by Liz Lochhead From: True Confessions and New Cliches Publ: Polygon
The Portfolio by Charlotte Mitchell From: Just in Case Publ: Souvenir Press
At the San Francisco Airport by Yvor Winters From: The New Oxford Book of American Verse Publ: Oxford
Family Affair by Robert Seatter From: Trevlling to the Fish orchards Publ: seren
We Remember Your Childhood Well by Carol Ann Duffy From: The Other Country Publ: Anvil Press Poetry
Piano Solo by Henry Shukman From: In Doctor No's Garden Publ: Cape Poetry
In Memory of My Mother by Patrick Kavanagh From: The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry Publ: faber and faber
My Mother's Sister by Cecil Day Lewis From: Poems of C. Day Lewis 1925-1972 Publ: Jonathan Cape and the Hogarth Press
The Mother by Padraic Pearse From: The Penguin Book of Irish Verse Publ: Penguin
Pay-back Time by Roger McGough From: Selected Poems Publ: Penguin
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