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28/01/2007

Roger McGough presents a selection of poems.

What the Heart is Like by Miroslav Holub, translated by Ewald Osers
From: Miroslav Holub, Poems Before & After
Publ: Bloodaxe

Courtyards in Delft by Derek Mahon
From: Selected Poems
Publ: Penguin

Epilogue by Robert Lowell
From: Day by Day
Publ: faber

Vincent Writes to Theo from the North by Jo Haslam
From: The Sign for Water
Publ: Smith/Doorstep Books

Portrait of Dr. Gachet by R.S.Thomas
From: Between Here and Now by R.S. Thomas
Publ: MacMillan

Rembrandt's Late Self-Portraits by Elizabeth Jennings
From: Collected Poems
Publ: Carcanet

You say their Pictures...from On Art and Artists by William Blake
From: The Poetical Works of William Blake
Publ: Oxford

Family Portrait translated by Elizabeth Bishop, from the original by Carlos Drummond de Andrade
From: The Complete Poems of Elizabeth Bishop
Publ: Chatto & Windus

Art above Nature: to Julia by Robert Herrick
From: The New Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse
Not my Best Side by U.A. Fanthorpe
From: Selected Poems
Publ: Penguin

The Thermal Stair by W.S. Graham
From: Collected Poems 1942-1977
Publ: Faber and faber

Colours by Yevgeny Yevtushenko translated by Robin Milner-Gulland
From: Selected Poems
Publ: Penguin

30 minutes

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Sat 3 Feb 2007 23:30

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  • Sat 3 Feb 2007 23:30