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 Sunday 16:30-17:00
Saturday (rpt) 23:00-23:30 |
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The poems you want to hear |
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Sunday 1 June 1630 (Rpt Saturday 7 June 2330) |
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Featured poems |
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We celebrate the arrival of the outdoor season with a programme recorded last week at the 2008 Guardian Hay Festival. The featured poems reflect something of the borders between Wales and England: the English side is represented by Alfred Noyes and the Welsh poetry chosen from listeners’ requests includes work by Dannie Abse, Sheenagh Pugh and RS Thomas. Roger was joined on stage by readers Manon Edwards and Richard Mitchley, and by Gwyneth Lewis who reads some of her own poetry and one by her fellow poet, Christopher Meredith, whose work she particularly admires.
The Birthright by Eiluned Lewis
From: Anglo-Welsh Poetry 1480-1990
Publ: seren
The View from the Window RS Thomas
From: Selected Poems 1946-1968
Publ: Granada
Wizards by Alfred Noyes
From: Poetry of the Transition 1850-1914
Publ: Oxford University Press
All Day it Has Rained by Alun Lewis
From: The Oxford Book of War Poetry
Publ: Oxford
Poem of the Week. Click on the title to read the text.
Words by Edward Thomas
From: The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas
Publ: Oxford
How to Knit a Poem by Gwyneth Lewis
Not yet published
Memorial Sweater by Gwyneth Lewis
Not yet published
These two poems only feature in the Saturday night edition
Knitting Needles by Roger McGough
Not Yet Published
Nana’s Knitting Needles by Roger McGough
Not Yet Published
Mother Tongue by Gwyneth Lewis
From: Keeping Mum
Publ: Bloodaxe
My Father was Distant by Gwyneth Lewis
From: Keeping Mum
Publ: Bloodaxe
This poem only features in the Saturday night edition.
A Past by Gwyneth Lewis
From: Keeping Mum
Publ: Bloodaxe
What Flight Meant by Christoper Meredith
From: The Meaning of Flight
Publ: seren
Welsh Love Letter by Michael Burn
From: Poems as an Accompaniment to a Life
Pub: Michael Russell
This poem only features in the Saturday night edtion.
Preseli Blue by Caroline Gill
From: The Lie of the Land
Publ: Cinnamon Press
Sometimes by Sheenagh Pugh
From: Selected Poems
Publ: seren
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Coming Up |
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8th June 2008
During the 1940s and 1950s, the BBC – possibly quite unwittingly – employed a number of poets. These men, most notably Louis MacNeice, Anthony Thwaite, D.G. Bridson and Terence Tiller, were radio producers and one of the programme engineers who remembers working with them has written to Poetry Please to ask to hear some of their work. MacNeice’s work features regularly on the programme and this is an opportunity to feature work by his fellow BBC poets.
15th June 2008
This week’s programme includes an intriguing “English ghazal”, - the ghazal being a Middle-Eastern verse form not normally associated with English.
22nd June 2008
A couple of splendid women feature in this week’s requests: from the Archives, Dame Edith Evans reads from Lewis Carroll and the spiritual writer Rabindranath Tagore, and Fleur Adcock makes a memorable poem out of a casual rejection slip.
29th June 2008
Edgar Allen Poe’s poem ‘The Raven’ made him an international star before his death. Roger McGough introduces requests for poems with a distinctly Gothic and funereal flavour.
6th July 2008
Alexander Pope was renowned for his biting satire. But other aspects of his personality are also revealed, as Roger McGough introduces requests for his work, including the narrative love poem, ‘Eloisa to Abelard’.
13th July 2008
Ballads are poems that roll along whilst telling a story. Roger McGough introduces requests for some classics, including the sorry tale of ‘Sir Patrick Spens’.
On 20th July we’re live from the music and arts festival ‘Latitude’ in Suffolk as Roger is joined on stage by poets, actors and other interesting artists to read your poetry requests.
Please make your rock 'n' roll poetry requests by contacting us here
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