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This week
Sunday 29 January 2006
Roger McGough introduces a selection of poems chosen by listeners
Featured poems
Darling Fool Child by Kate Scott
From: Stitches
Publ: Peterloo Poets
A Mother Worries by Liz Lochhead
From: True Confessions and New Cliches
Publ: Polygon
The Portfolio by Charlotte Mitchell
From: Just in Case
Publ: Souvenir Press
At the San Francisco Airport by Yvor Winters
From: The New Oxford Book of American Verse
Publ: Oxford
Family Affair by Robert Seatter
From: Trevlling to the Fish orchards
Publ: seren
We Remember Your Childhood Well by Carol Ann Duffy
From: The Other Country
Publ: Anvil Press Poetry
Piano Solo by Henry Shukman
From: In Doctor No's Garden
Publ: Cape Poetry
In Memory of My Mother by Patrick Kavanagh
From: The Faber Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry
Publ: faber and faber
My Mother's Sister by Cecil Day Lewis
From: Poems of C. Day Lewis 1925-1972
Publ: Jonathan Cape and the Hogarth Press
The Mother by Padraic Pearse
From: The Penguin Book of Irish Verse
Publ: Penguin
Pay-back Time by Roger McGough
From: Selected Poems
Publ: Penguin
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