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This week
Sunday 21 May 2006
Roger McGough introduces a selection of poems chosen by listeners
Featured poems
This Morning by Jon Stallworthy
From: The Norton Anthology of Poetry - Third Edition
Publ: Norton
Diary Moon by Paul Farley
From: The Ice Age
Publ: Picador
Busy Diary by Roger McGough
From: Bad, Bad Cats
Publ: Puffin
A Speech at the Lost and Found by Wislawa Szymborska
Translated by Stanislaw Baranczac and Clare Cavanagh
From: Poems, New and Collected 1957-1997
Publ: faber and faber
In Church by R.S Thomas
From: R.S Thomas - selected by Anthony Thwaite
Publ: Phoenix Poetry
The Heron/The Calvinist by Kenneth Steven
From: Wild Horses
Publ: Saint Andrews Press
The Galloping Cat by Stevie Smith
From: The Collected Poems of Stevie Smith
Publ: Allen Lane
A Special Odour by Brendan Kennelly
From: Begin
Publ: Bloodaxe Books
The Ballad of Camden Town by James Elroy Flecker
From: The Collected Poems
Publ: Secker & Warburg
Doctor Crippen in Love by Tobias Hill
From: Zoo
Publ: Oxford University Press
The Embankment (The Fantasia of a Fallen Gentleman on a Cold, Bitter Night) by T.E. Hulme
From: The Oxford Book of Short Poems
Publ: Oxford University Press
The Untouchables by Kate Scott
From: Stitches
Publ: Peterloo Poets
Degrees of Gray in Philipsburg by Richard Hugo
From: The Norton Anthology of Poetry - Third Edition
Publ: Norton
Love (III) by George Herbert
From: The English Poems of George Herbert
Publ: Dent
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