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This week
Sunday 19 February 2006
Roger McGough introduces a selection of poems chosen by listeners
Featured poems
This is the last in the current series. Poetry Please returns in May.
Unless otherwise indicated, all poems in this week's edition are by William Barnes.
Extracts from A Bit O' Sly Coorten
From: Poems Grave and Gay
Publ: Longmans
The Young Rhymer Snubbed
From: Victorian Literature: Poetry
Publ: MacMillan
White An' Blue
From: Selected Poems
Publ: Penguin
A Red, Red Rose
By: Robert Burns
From: Poems and Songs
Publ: Dover Publcations
My Orcha'd in Linden Lea
From: Selected Poems
Publ: Penguin
The Impercipient
By: Thomas Hardy
From: The Oxford Authors - Thomas Hardy
Publ: Oxford University Press
