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Last broadcast on Sat, 19 Jun 2010, 23:30 on BBC Radio 4 (see all broadcasts).
Synopsis
In the fifth programme in the current series of Poetry Please, Roger McGough presents a seasonal selection of poetry requests. Today several poems by modern female poets about flowers feature alongside a trio of pastoral poems from Seamus Heaney. A poem for the Solstice by Louis MacNeice gets in just ahead of the season too. Readers: Finbar Lynch and Jasmine Hyde. Producer: Tim Dee.
Poems featured in this edition
Corinna’s Going a-Maying
by Robert Herrick
From: Poetical Works of Herrick
Pub: Oxford University Press
The Swallows Move In
by Jo Shapcott
From: My Life Asleep – Jo Shapcott
Pub: Oxford University Press
Digging
by Seamus Heaney
From: Seamus Heaney – New Selected Poems 1966-1987
Pub: Faber
The Way Down
by Jean Sprackland
From: Tilt – Jean Sprackland
Pub: Cape Poetry
Follower
by Seamus Heaney
From: Seamus Heaney – New Selected Poems 1966-1987
Pub: Faber
In Modern Dress
by Craig Raine
From: Rich – Craig Raine
Pub: Faber
Snakeshead Frittillaries
by Anne Ridler
From: Anne Ridler – Collected Poems
Pub: Carcanet
The Wife’s Tale
by Seamus Heaney
From: Opened Ground – Poems 1966-1996
Pub: Faber
The Wild Iris
by Louise Gluck
From: Staying Alive – Real Poems for Unreal Times
Pub: Bloodaxe
A Song for England
by Andrew Salkey
From: Poems on the Underground
Pub: Cassell
Deaths of Flowers
by E J Scovell
From: E J Scovell – Selected Poems
Pub: Carcanet
Solstice
by Louis MacNeice
From: Collected Poems – Louis MacNeice
Pub: Faber
Broadcasts
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Sun 13 Jun 201016:30
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Sat 19 Jun 201023:30
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