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This week
Sunday 31 December 2006
Roger McGough welcomes in the New Year with poems about hope, regret, sunrise and time. With requests for work by Alfred Lord Tennyson, Robin Robertson, David Constantine, U.A Fanthorpe and Robert Frost. The readers are Patrick Romer, Tom Lawrence and Kate Littlewood.
Featured poems
I stood on a Tower in the Wet by Alfred Lord Tennyson From: The Oxford Treasury of Time Poems Publ: Oxford University Press
New Year Behind the Asylum by David Constantine From: Collected Poems Publ: Bloodaxe Books
I thank you God by ee cummings From: Complete Poems Publ: Liveright
The Sunne Rising by John Donne From: The New Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse Publ: Oxford University Press
The sun has burst the sky by Jenny Joseph From: Selected Poems Publ: Bloodaxe
Small Dawn Song by Philip Gross From: The Oxford Treasury of Time Poems Publ: Oxford University Press
Half-Past Two by U.A. Fanthorpe From: Neck-Verse Publ: Peterloo Poets
To an Hour-Glass by John Clare From: A Century of Sonnets - The Romantic Era Revival 1750-1850 Publ: Oxford University Press
Answers to Letters by Tomas Transtromer, translated by Robin Fulton From: New Collected Poems Publ: Bloodaxe Books
Section 5 of Clearances by Seamus Heaney From: The Haw Lantern Publ: faber and faber
Loss by Sandor Marai translated by Martin Bennett From: Looking Eastward Publ: King's College London
Small Boy by Norman MacCaig From: Collected Poems Publ: Chatto & Windus
Letters 1 by M.R. Peacocke From: Speaking of the Dead Publ: Peterloo Poets
Holding Proteus by Robin Robertson From: Swithering Publ: Picador
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost From: The Poetry of Robert Frost Publ: Jonathan Cape
The New Year by Edward Thomas From: The Oxford Treasury of Time Poems Publ: Oxford University Press
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