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Sunday 1st March 2009 1630 (Rpt Saturday 7th March 2330)
Laurie Lee, DH Lawrence, Ernest Dowson and UA Fanthorpe are featured among your poetry requests introduced by Roger McGough.
Featured poems
Patience Strong by UA Fanthorpe
From: UA Fanthorpe, Collected Poems 1978-2003
Pub: Peterloo Poets
Dear Mr Lee by UA Fanthorpe
From: UA Fanthorpe, Collected Poems 1978-2003
Pub: Peterloo Poets
The Three Winds by Laurie Lee
From: Laurie Lee, Selected Poems
Pub: Andre Deutsch
Giorno dei Morti by DH Lawrence
From: DH Lawrence – Complete Poems
Pub: Penguin
When the Ripe Fruit Falls by DH Lawrence
From: DH Lawrence – Complete Poems
Pub: Penguin
Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae sub Regno Cynarae by Ernest Dowson
From: The Poetical Works of Ernest Dowson
Pub: Cassell
