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This week
Sunday 25 September 2005
Roger McGough introduces a selection of poems chosen by listeners
Featured poems
A Day in Autumn by RS Thomas
From: Poetry For Supper - New Poems
Publ: Rupert Hart-Davies
The Burning of the Leaves by Laurence Binyon
From: The Burning of the Leaves and Other Poems
Publ: Macmillan
Autumn Piece by Charles Tomlinson
From: Notes From New York
Publ: Oxford
To Ivor Gurney by Charles Tomlinson
From: Notes From New York
Publ: Oxford
Caedmon by Norman Nicholson
From: Norman Nicholson Selected Poems 1940-1982
Publ: Faber & Faber
The Pot Geranium by Norman Nicholson
From: Norman Nicholson Selected Poems 1940-1982
Publ: Faber & Faber
At Lulworth Cove a Century Back by Thomas Hardy
From: The Oxford Authors, Thomas Hardy
Publ: OUP
From ABC in Sound, Bob Cobbing
From: Sound Poems: ABC in Sound
Publ: Writers’ Forum (1965)
The Dyslexic Search for Ian McMillan by John Duffy
Published in magazine “Pennine Platform” No. 57
Barnsley As A Tuscan Hill Village by Ian McMillan
Unpublished as yet
Yorkshire Yearning by P.J. Krumens
PJK Art & Poetry Gallery, Skipton
Egocentric by Stevie Smith
From: Collected Poems of Stevie Smith
Publ: Penguin
Waiting by Edward Lowbury
From: Selected Poems
Publ: Celtion Poetry
To Margot Heinemann by John Cornford
From: Understand the Weapon, Understand the Wound: Selected Writings of John Cornford
Publ: Carcanet
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