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This week
Sunday 29 October 2006
Roger McGough presents a selection of soothing, scary and musical poems in the form of lullabies.
With readers Josette Simon, Patrick Romer and Rupert Wickham.
Featured poems
Lullaby for a Baby Toad by Stella Gibbons
From: Collected Poems
Publ: Longmans, Green & Co
All the Pretty Little Horses by Anon
From: The Oxford Book of Light Verse
Didn't Leave Nobody but the Baby by Anon
Morning Song by Sylvia Plath
From: Collected Poems
publ: faber and faber
Sweet and Low by Alfred Lord Tennyson
From: The Book of a Thousand Poems
Publ: Collins Educational
Dream Song by Walter de la Mare
From: Selected Poems ed Matthew Sweeney
Publ: faber and faber
Suo Gan by Anon
Night Roost by Peter Wyton
From: Even the Beggars Have Pearls
Publ: tempus
book available from author: peterwyton@yahoo.co.uk
Mother Goblin's Lullaby by Jack Prelutsky
From: The New Oxford Book of Children's Verse
The Coventry Carol - trad
Prayer for a New Mother by Dorothy Parker
From: Not so Deep as a Well
Publ: Hamish Hamilton
Summertime by George Gershwin
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