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This week
Sunday 2 October 2005
Roger McGough introduces a selection of poems chosen by listeners
Featured poems
Rain on Dry Ground by Christopher Fry
From: The Boy with the Cart
Publ: Frederick Muller Ltd
The Falcom to the Falconer by Jonathan Steffen
From: Poem for the Day published by Sinclair-Stevenson
Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
From: Wild Geese : Selected Poems
Publ: Bloodaxe
Two Eagles by Andrew Motion
From: Public Property
Publ: Faber & Faber
Bird Log by Jeremy Grange.
Overall winner of BBC Wildlife Magazine competition
Dormouse Stronghold by Paul Farley
Unpublished
Toad by Norman MacCaig
From: The Equal Skies
Chatto
Rain on Dry Ground by Christopher Fry
From: The Boy with the Cart
Publ: Frederick Muller Ltd
The Falcom to the Falconer by Jonathan Steffen
From: Poem for the Day published by Sinclair-Stevenson
Wild Geese by Mary Oliver
From: Wild Geese : Selected Poems
Publ: Bloodaxe
Two Eagles by Andrew Motion
From: Public Property
Publ: Faber & Faber
Bird Log by Jeremy Grange.
Overall winner of BBC Wildlife Magazine competition
Dormouse Stronghold by Paul Farley
Unpublished
Toad by Norman MacCaig
From: The Equal Skies
Chatto
The Owl Critic by JT Fields (non copyright)
From: The Oxford Book of American Light Verse
Publ: Oxford
Wheelie Bin Robins by Aidan Tulloch.
Winner of the aged 7 and under competition
run by BBC Wildlife Magazine
Spell to Bring a Smile by John Agard
From: Laughter is an Egg
Publ: Puffin
Reason for Not Writing Orthodox Nature Poetry
by John Wain
From: The Albemarle Book of Modern Verse 2
From: Dart by Alice Oswald
Publ: Faber & Faber
The Cat and the Moon by Yeats
From: The Collected Poems
Publ: Palgrave
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