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20/05/2007

Roger McGough introduces requests for poems that mark life's turning points. Featured writers include Thom Gunn, Kahlil Gibran and Helen Dunmore.

Roger McGough introduces requests for poems that mark life's turning points. Featured writers include Thom Gunn, Kahlil Gibran and Helen Dunmore. Readers are Amanda Horlock, Iain Mitchell and Duncan Bonner.

[Rptd Sat 11.30pm]

Baby Song by Thom Gunn
From: Collected Poems
Publ: faber and faber

Touch by Michael Donaghy
From: Shibboleth
Publ: Oxford University Press

Prayer before Birth by Louis MacNeice
From: Collected Poems
Publ: faber and faber

Sammy by Willie Russell
From: Blood Brothers
Publ: Methuen Drama

Rites of Passage by Thom Gunn
From: Collected Poems
Publ: faber and faber

She Pops Home by Cal Clothier
Unpublished

Homecoming by Simon Armitage
From: CloudCuckooLand
Publ: faber and faber

from The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
Publ: William Heinemann

my father moved by ee cummings
From: Complete Poem 1904-1962
Publ: Liveright

Arthur Makes an Inventory by Laurence Lerner
From: The Life and Opinions of a Digital Computer
Publ: The Harvester Press

I Should Like to be Buried in a Summer Forest by Helen Dunmore
From: Out of the Blue - Poems 1975-2001
Publ: Bloodaxe Books

Dust by Elizabeth Jennings
From: Collected Poems 1953-1985
Publ: Carcanet

30 minutes

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Sun 20 May 2007 16:30

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  • Sun 20 May 2007 16:30