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This week
Sunday 6 November 2005
Roger McGough introduces a selection of poems chosen by listeners
Featured poems
Words by Edward Thomas
From: The Collected Poems and War Diary, 1917
Publ: faber and faber
A Smugglers' Song by Rudyard Kipling
From: The Definitive Edition of Rudyard Kipling's Verse
Publ: Hodder & Stoughton
The Last Buccaneer by Charles Kingsley
From: Poems by Charles Kingsley
Publ: MacMillan & Co
The Tide River by Charles Kingsley
From: Poems by Charles Kingsley
Publ: MacMillan & Co
Stormcock in Elder by Ruth Pitter
From: Rith Pitter: Poems
Publ: The Cresset Press
One Foot in Eden by Edwin Muir
From: Collected Poems
Publ: faber and faber
A Chinese Sage by Elizabeth Jennings
From: Collected Poems 1953 - 1985
Publ: Carcanet
The Fire-Autumn by Les Murray
From: Collected Poems
Publ: Carcanet
Moonlit Apples by John Drinkwater
From: The Collected Poems - 1917-1922 Vol II
Publ: Sidgwick and Johnson
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