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This Week (and you can see what's coming up in the series by scrolling down this page) |
Sunday 15 July 2007 1630
(Rpt on Saturday 21 July 2330)
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Featured poems |
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Causeway by Simon Armitage
From: T Rex Versus The Corduroy Kid
Publ: faber
Friends of the River Trent by Stevie Smith
From: The Collected Poems
Publ: Penguin
Don't Hurt Your Coccyx by Rachel Pantechnicon
The Silken Tent by Robert Frost
From: The Poetry of Robert Frost
Publ: Jonathan Cape
To His Lost Lover by Simon Armitage
From: Book of Matches
Publ: faber
Little Boy Blue by Eugene Field
From: The Oxford Book of American Light Verse
Inexpensive Progress by John Betjeman
From: The Collected Poems
Publ: John Murray
First Time In by Ivor Gurney
From: Selected Poems
Publ: Oxford
O What is that Sound by WH Auden
From: Collected Shorter Poems
Publ: faber
Great God Quetzalcoatl Green Hot Water Bottle by Rachel Pantechnicon
The Rev’d Arbuthnot-Armitage-Brown by George Barker
From: Funny Folk
Publ: faber
The Memories of Fish by James Tate
From: Return to the City of White Donkeys
Publ: ecco |
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Coming Up |
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Sunday 15th and Sunday 22nd July 2007
On Saturday July 14th 2007, we will be recording two editions of Poetry Please at the Latitude festival in Suffolk . Roger will be joined there by Simon Armitage, Mark Steel, Rickie Lee Jones and others. The arts festival is held at the Henham Park Estate in Southwold and if you would like tickets, you can visit the festival website - Latitude - or call their ticket hotline on 0870 060 3775.
Sunday 29th July
Stephen Rea and Fiona Shaw read some of the many Irish poems you’ve requested, from Yeats to MacNeice to Heaney, including a selection from some of the new Irish poets. The programme is presented by Roger McGough.
Sunday 5th August
Roger presents a selection of poetry including two pieces by a contemporary poet new to the programme, Fiona Hamilton. There are also poems about the Roman occupation of Britain, the pleasures of Bath - and how to pronounce that tricky place-name - and a short piece of archive from 1932. And to finish, a clutch of poems about water and rivers, one of which is read by the poet Lotte Kramer. Other readers are Tom Lawrence, Peter Marinker, Phyllida Nash, Susan Jameson and Patrick Romer.
Sunday 12th August
A listener's request for poetry by Robert Southey finds Roger exploring war and old age, but on the way he presents readings of poems by Thomas Hardy, Philip Larkin, Rupert Brooke and Wendy Cope - and discovers "the secret of life" in a line of poetry by the American writer Denise Levertov. Jenny Coverack, Tom Lawrence, Peter Marinker, Susan Jameson and Patrick Romer read the poems.
Sunday 19th August
Today's Poetry Please has a sensual feel, as many of the poems use as imagery the sea, trees and autumn fruits. The theme of summer food leads to a delightfully delicate piece about an end-of-school picnic which hints at grown-up pleasures to come. Phyllida Nash, Jenny Coverack, Tom Lawrence and Peter Marinker are the readers.
Sunday 26th August
For the last in this series Roger has chosen a selection of requests which reflect some of the main pre-occupations with the end of the summer: enjoying the garden, working the land, and preparing for the inevitable return to school. He's also looking at a collection of art work drawn especially for him by a class of pupils in primary school who were inspired by one of his own poems - though less so, he finds, by one of his photographs.
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