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This week
Sunday 5 February 2006
Roger McGough introduces a selection of poems chosen by listeners
Featured poems
The Old Sailor by A.A. Milne
From: Now We Are Six
Publ: Mammoth
The Queen of Sheba by Kathleen Jamie
From: Mr and Mrs Scotland Are Dead
Publ: Bloodaxe Books
Part Eight of Zero Gravity by Gwyneth Lewis
From: Zero Gravity
Publ: Bloodaxe Books
Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
From: Selected Poems
Publ: Fyfield Books
Thistles by Ted Hughes
From: New Selected Poems 1957 - 1994
Publ: faber and faber
Hallaig by Sorley MacLean
From: The New Penguin Book of English Verse
Remembrances by John Clare
From: The Oxford Authors - John Clare
Publ: Oxford
The One by Patrick Kavanagh
From: Collected Poems
Publ: Martin Brian & O'Keefe
Opening Section of Hawkwood by Ken Smith
From: Terra
Publ: Bloodaxe
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