A personal journey around the landscapes of British poetry
Rivers
Sunday 1st May 4.30-5.00pm
Programme11: Rivers
About the programme From the source to the mouth - a parable of a poem. Lives flow, poems do the same. The rhythms and cycles of water. Poets and swimming. A mapping of the living arteries of the island.
Contributors: Peter Randall-Page and Roger Deakin
Reader: Kenneth Cranham, Jamie Glover, Simon Russell Beale
Poems
'Rivers Arise' by Milton
From: The Complete Poems published by Dent
Reader: Kenneth Cranham
'Whiteness' by Ted Hughes
From: A March Calf published by faber
Reader: recording of Ted Hughes reading
Extract from 'The Watse Land'
From: The Waste Land and other poems published by faber
Reader: recording of T.S. Eliot reading
'Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey' by Wordsworth
From: Wordsworth - Poems selected by Seamus Heaney published by faber
Reader: Kenneth Cranham
'The Old Summerhouse' by Walter de la Mare
From: The Collected Poems of Walter de la Mare published by faber
Reader: Jamie Glover
Extract from 'Dart' by Alice Oswald
From: Dart published by faber
Reader: Alice Oswald
'Inversnaid' by Gerard Manley Hopkins
From: Hopkins Poems and Prose published by Everyman
Reader: Simon Russell Beale
Your comments
William McGuinness, Barnsley I love the poems of less well know poets like the Saddleworth poet, Ammon Wrigley and the Stalybridge poet, Samuel Laycock.
(but these are the poets of my working class youth and childhood, but loved and greatly respected even so).
William McGuinness, Barnsley
I love the poems of less well know poets like the Saddleworth poet, Ammon Wrigley and the Stalybridge poet, Samuel Laycock. (but these are the poets of my working class youth and childhood, but loved and greatly respected even so).