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This week
Sunday 29 October 2006
Roger McGough presents a selection of soothing, scary and musical poems in the form of lullabies. With readers Josette Simon, Patrick Romer and Rupert Wickham.
Featured poems
Lullaby for a Baby Toad by Stella Gibbons From: Collected Poems Publ: Longmans, Green & Co
All the Pretty Little Horses by Anon From: The Oxford Book of Light Verse
Didn't Leave Nobody but the Baby by Anon
Morning Song by Sylvia Plath From: Collected Poems publ: faber and faber
Sweet and Low by Alfred Lord Tennyson From: The Book of a Thousand Poems Publ: Collins Educational
Dream Song by Walter de la Mare From: Selected Poems ed Matthew Sweeney Publ: faber and faber
Suo Gan by Anon
Night Roost by Peter Wyton From: Even the Beggars Have Pearls Publ: tempus book available from author: [email protected]
Mother Goblin's Lullaby by Jack Prelutsky From: The New Oxford Book of Children's Verse
The Coventry Carol - trad
Prayer for a New Mother by Dorothy Parker From: Not so Deep as a Well Publ: Hamish Hamilton
Summertime by George Gershwin
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