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This week
Sunday 7 May 2006
Roger McGough introduces a selection of poems chosen by listeners
Featured poems
The Long Garden by Patrick Kavanagh
From: The Oxford Book of Garden Verse
Publ: Oxford
Gardeners' Question Time by Steve Ellis
From: Scanning the Century: The Penguin Book of the Twentieth Century in Poetry
Publ: Penguin
The Cockney's Garden/If it Wasn't for the 'Ouses In Between by Edgar Bateman
From: The Oxford Book of Garden Verse
Publ: Oxford
The Seed Shop by Muriel Stuart
From: A Book of Town Verse
Publ: Geoffrey Cumberlege - Oxford
Digging by Seamus Heaney
From: Death of a Naturalist
Publ: faber and faber
The Lost Leader by Robert Browning
From: Browning
Publ: Penguin
January 1940 by Roy Fuller
From: The Middle of a War
Publ: Hogarth Press
After Great Pain by Emily Dickinson
From: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Publ: faber and faber
Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes by Billy Collins
From: Taking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes
Publ: Picador
Litany by Billy Collins
From: Nine Horses
Publ: Picador
Swing Song by Louis Macneice
From: The Collected Poems of Louis Macneice
Publ: faber and faber
On Time For Once by Brian Patten
From: Vanishing Trick
Publ: George Allen & Unwin
Nothing by James Fenton
From: Children In Exile
Publ: The Salamander Press
As well as the Bible and Shakespeare by U.A Fanthorpe
From: Neck Verse
Publ: Peterloo Poets
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