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This week
Sunday 16 October 2005
Roger McGough introduces a selection of poems chosen by listeners
Featured poems
I Had Rather Be A Woman by Daphne Schiller
From: No Holds Barred – The Raving Beauties Choose New Poems by Women
Publ: The Women’s Press
I Will Go With My Father A-Ploughing by Joseph Campbell
From: An Anthology of Irish Literature
Publ: New York University Press
Song to the Men of England by Percy Bysshe Shelley
From: The Oxford Book of Work
Publ: Oxford
The Song of the Shirt by Thomas Hood
From: The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse
Publ: Oxford
When I Was An Arcade Cashier by Paul Bura
From: The Drunk on the Train Collection
Publ: The Bosgo Press - or see Paul Bura for further details
Dictation by Kathryn Simmonds
From: Snug
Publ: Smith/ Doorstop Books
Slough by John Betjeman
From: Collected Poems
Publ: John Murray
Eighties, Nineties by Simon Armitage
In My Craft or Sullen Art by Dylan Thomas
From: Collected Poems 1934-1952
Publ: J.M Dent & Sons Ltd
In The Theatre by Dannie Abse
From: White Coat, Purple Coat
Publ: Hutchinson
