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This week
Sunday 12 February 2006
Roger McGough introduces a selection of poems chosen by listeners
Featured poems
The Redness of Poetry by Carole Satyamurti
From: Stitching the Dark - New & Selected Poems
Publ: Bloodaxe Books
I am Cherry Alive, the Little Girl Sang by Delmore Schwartz
From: Selected Poems (1938-1958) Summer Knowledge
Publ: New Directions
Red Boots On by Kit Wright
From: Poems 1974-1983
Publ: Hutchinson
There's Nothing Like the Sun by Edward Thomas
From: The Collected Poems
Publ: Oxford
Swineherd by Eiléan Ni Chuilleanáin
From: Modern Irish Poetry
Publ: Sphere Books Ltd
Girls Laughing by Ruth Bidgood
From: Lighting Candles
Publ: Poetry Wales Press
Great Moments by Gabriel Celaya, translated by Robert Mezey
From: Scanning the Century
Publ: Penguin
The Ice-Cream Man by Michael Longley
From: Selected Poems
Publ: Cape Poetry
The Almond Tree by Jon Stallworthy
From: The Norton Anthology of Poetry (Third Edition)
Publ: Norton
The Arrival of the Bee Box by Sylvia Plath
From: Collected Poems
Publ: faber and faber
Large Red Man Reading by Wallace Stevens
From: The Collected Poems
Publ: faber and faber
The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams
From: The Collected Poems I - 1909-1939
Publ: Carcanet
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