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Poetry Please

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17/06/2012

Duration:
30 minutes
First broadcast:
Sunday 17 June 2012

Roger McGough presents listeners' poetry requests, including readings of poems both old and new by the Irish poet Paul Durcan - one of which is in celebration of fathers.

Also, Lucy Black reads poems by Charlotte Mew, John Donne, Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, John Keats, Emily Bronte, George Byron and John Freeman.

Producer Beth O'Dea.

  • Poems featured in this programme:

    Sister Agnes Writes to Her Beloved Mother
    by Paul Durcan
    From A Snail In My Prime – New and Selected Poems
    Publisher: Harvill

    The Trees Are Down
    by Charlotte Mew
    From Collected Poems – Charlotte Mew
    Publisher: Gerald Duckworth

    Sonnet - To Mrs Reynolds’s Cat
    by John Keats
    From The Poetical Works of John Keats
    Publisher: Oxford University Press

    June and Ivor
    by Paul Durcan
    From Praise in Which I Live and Move and Have my Being
    Publisher: Harvill Secker

    A Hymn To God The Father
    by John Donne
    From The New Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse
    Publisher: Oxford University Press

    Because I could not stop for Death
    by Emily Dickinson
    From The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
    Publisher: Faber and Faber

    She Walks in Beauty
    by George Byron
    From Lord Byron – Selected Poems
    Publisher: Bloomsbury Poetry Classics

    Michael Dan Gallagher Down at the Sound, 10.30am
    by Paul Durcan
    From Praise in Which I Live and Move and Have my Being
    Publisher: Harvill Secker

    Two Lovers and a Beachcomber by the Real Sea
    by Sylvia Plath
    From Sylvia Plath – Collected Poems
    Publisher: Faber and Faber

    Stanzas
    by Emily Brontë
    From The Brontës – Selected Poems
    Publisher: Everyman

    Music Comes
    by John Freeman
    From Music and Sweet Poetry, compiled by John Bishop
    Publisher: John Baker

    10.30 a.m. Mass, 16 June 1985
    by Paul Durcan
    From A Snail In My Prime – New and Selected Poems
    Publisher: Harvill

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