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Last broadcast on Sat, 11 Feb 2012, 23:30 on BBC Radio 4 (see all broadcasts).
Synopsis
Roger McGough with a rich mixture of poetry requests read by John Sessions and Lisa Kerr.
Poems of temptation, and of lost loves and places, featuring a couple of snakes, a rusty fridge and a talking bull walrus. With W.S. Graham's lovely poem of longing for a favourite place from childhood, Loch Thom, and Kathryn Simmonds reads her own poems, including a love poem about a couple united by their dislike of the film The Fifth Element. There's a dash of acidity from Philip Larkin and a healthy dose of danger in a couple of snake poems by Denise Levertov and D.H. Lawrence. There's also a deceptive villanelle by Elizabeth Bishop and an unlikely conversation in a poem by the late Canadian poet Alden Nowlen.
Producer: Sarah Langan.
This week's poems
Recycling, April
by Kathryn Simmonds
From Sunday at the Skin Laundrette
Pub: Seren
To the Snake
by Denise Levertov
From Denise Levertov – New Selected Poems
Pub: Bloodaxe
Snake
by D H Lawrence
From The Love Poems of D H Lawrence
Pub: Kyle Cathie Limited
Figure
by C H Sisson
From C. H. Sisson – Collected Poems
Pub: Carcanet
Seen From Above
by Wislawa Szymborska, translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh
From Wislawa Szymborska – Poems New and Collected 1957-1997
Pub: Faber
In Praise of the Great Bull Walrus
by Alden Nowlen
From Between Tears and Laughter
Pub: Bloodaxe
Next, Please
by Philip Larkin
From Philip Larkin – Collected Poems
Pub: The Marvell Press / Faber
News
by Kathryn Simmonds
From Sunday at the Skin Laundrette
Pub: Seren
Loch Thom
by WS Graham
From W.S. Graham – New Collected Poems
Pub: Faber
Address Not Known
by John Heath-Stubbs
From John Heath-Stubbs – Selected Poems
Pub: Carcanet
One Art
by Elizabeth Bishop
From Elizabeth Bishop – Complete Poems
Pub: Chatto & Windus
The Road to Persia
by Kathryn Simmonds
From Sunday at the Skin Laundrette
Pub: Seren
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Sun 5 Feb 201216:30
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