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08/04/2007

Roger McGough celebrates the arrival of spring with poems by Walt Whitman, Charlotte Mew, Thomas Hardy and Ted Hughes. Readers are Adjoa Andoh, Cian Murchu and Trevor Peacock.

Roger McGough celebrates the arrival of spring with poems by Walt Whitman, Charlotte Mew, Thomas Hardy and Ted Hughes. Readers are Adjoa Andoh, Cian Murchu and Trevor Peacock.

[Rptd Sat 11.30pm]

The Year's Awakening by Thomas Hardy
From: The Oxford Authors
Publ: Oxford University Press

Miracles by Walt Whitman
From: The Complete Poems
Publ: Penguin

The Fight of the Year by Roger McGough
From: The Oxford Book of Christmas Poems
Publ: Oxford University Press

I So Liked Spring by Charlotte Mew
From: Collected Poems and Prose
Publ: Carcanet Press

All Suddenly the Wind Comes Soft by Rupert Brooke
From: The Complete Poems of Rupert Brooke
Publ: Sidgwick & Johnson

The Trees by Philip Larkin
From: Collected Poems
Publ: faber and faber

Primavera by Robin Robertson
From: Wild Reckoning anthology
Publ: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

The West Wind by John Masefield
From: The Collected Poems
Publ: Heinemann

Home-Thoughts from Abroad by Robert Browning
From: Poems selected by WE Williams
Publ: Penguin

The Lambs of Grasmere by Christina Rossetti
From: The Complete Poems
Publ: Penguin

Winter by Brendan Behan, translated by Ullick O'Connor
From: Life Styles
Publ: The Dolmen Press - Dublin. London - Hamish Hamilton.

Easter 1916 by W.B. Yeats
From: The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
Publ: palgrave

Easter by George Herbert
From: The English Poems of George Herbert
Publ: Dent

April Birthday by Ted Hughes
From: Season Songs
Publ: faber and faber

30 minutes

Last on

Sat 14 Apr 2007 23:30

Broadcasts

  • Sun 8 Apr 2007 16:30
  • Sat 14 Apr 2007 23:30