
The Lakes and the Caribbean
Roger McGough with a miscellany including poetry from The Lakes and the Caribbean, as well as a trilogy for worriers. The poetry comes from Stevie Smith, Matt Harvey, Percy Shelley, Fleur Adcock and others. Producer Sally Heaven.
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This Week's Poems
Extract from 'Worry'
By Roger McGough
From Melting into the Foreground
Pub: Penguin 1986
To Live At All is Miracle Enough
By Mervyn Peake
From The Voice of The Heart: The Working of Mervyn Peake’s Imagination by G.Peter Winnington
Pub: Liverpool University press
Cold Molded Wood
By Sarah Hymas
From http://www.poetrymagazines.org.uk/magazine/record.asp?id=27000
For No Good Reason
By Peter Redgrove
From The Nature of Cold Weather and Other Poems
Pub: Routledge
Beck
By Norman Nicholson
From Selected Poems 1940 – 1982
Pub: Faber and Faber
The Green Linnet
By William Wordsworth
From http://www.columbiagrangers.org/poem/00000008237/00000008237/00000008237P01/?q=
Answer to A Child’s Question
By Samuel Taylor Coleridge
From Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Poems
Pub: Everyman
Extract from Limbo
By Edward Kamau Braithwaite
From The Arrivants: A New World Trilogy; Rights of Passage / Islands / Masks
Pub: OUP
Black Magic Woman
By John Agard
Taken from poster owned by the requestor
I Shall Return
By Claude McKay
From Complete Poems Claude McKay
Pub: University of Illinois Press
The Pool
By Marjorie Pickthall
From: The Columbia Grangers World of Poetry Online
Miniver Cheevey
By Edward Arlington Robinson
From The Penguin Book of American Verse
Pub: Penguin
The Rolling English Road
By GK Chesterton
From The Collected Poems of G K Chesterton
Pub: Methuen
The Singing Cat
By Stevie Smith
FromA The Collected Poems of Stevie Smith
Pub: Penguin
I Worried
By Matt Harvey
From The Hole in the Sum Of My Parts
Pub: The Poetry Trust
Things
By Fleur Adcock
From: Fleur Adcock Poems 1960 – 2000
Pub: Bloodaxe Books
Sometimes
By Sheenagh Pugh
From Sheenagh Pugh Selected Poems
Pub: Seren Books
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Presenter | Roger McGough |
Producer | Sally Heaven |
Broadcasts
- Sun 7 Feb 2016 16:30BBC Radio 4
- Sat 13 Feb 2016 23:30BBC Radio 4