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John Gay, Tony Connor, Keats

Roger McGough presents a selection of poems. Featured works include John Gay's Trivia, Tony Connor's On the Cliff and John Keats' Ode on a Grecian Urn.

Roger McGough presents a selection of poems requested by listeners.

Featured works include John Gay's Trivia, AK Ramanujan's Small Scale Reflections on a Great House, Tony Connor's On the Cliff, John Keats' Ode on a Grecian Urn and Wallace Stevens' Anecdote of the Jar.

The readers are John Telfer and Hayley Doherty.

Morning at the Window by T.S. Eliot
From: Prufrock and Other Observations
Publ: faber

Extracts from Trivia; or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London by John Gay
From: The Poetical Works of John Gay
Publ: Oxford University Press

Small-Scale Reflections on a Great House by A.K. Ramanujan
From: The Oxford Book of Contemporary Verse 1945-1980
Publ: Oxford University Press

On Not Writing a Letter From Iona by Carol Satyamurti
From: Stitching the Dark
Publ: Bloodaxe

To Go to Lvov by Adam Zagajewski, translated Renata Corczynski
From: Without End
Publ: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux

Majorca by John Cooper-Clarke
From: Ten Years in an Open-Neck Stuffed Shirt
Publ: Arena Books

Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats
From: The Poetical Works of John Keats
Publ: Oxford University Press

Anecdote of the Jar by Wallace Stevens
From: Selected Poems
Publ: faber and faber

The Hung Wu Vase by Robert Graves
From: Collected Poems
Publ: Cassell

Seeing by Kenneth Steven
From: Salt and Light (published September 07)
Publ: Saint Andrew Press

The Watch by May Swenson
From: The Harper Anthology of Poetry

30 minutes

Last on

Sat 14 Jul 2007 23:30

Broadcasts

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