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20/01/2008

Roger McGough presents an eclectic selection of poetry including Kipling's The Way through the Woods and Muriel Spark's That Lonely Shoe on the Road.

The Master Speed by Robert Frost
From: The Poetry of Robert Frost
Publ: Cape

Rising Five by Norman Nicholson
From: Selected Poems 1940-1982
Publ: faber and faber

Fingers in the Door by David Holbrook
From: The New Poetry
Publ: Penguin

The Dreaming Bean by Katherine Pierpoint
From: Truffle Beds
Publ: faber and faber

Recipe for a Salad by Reverend Sydney Smith.
From: The Faber Book of Useful Verse
Publ: faber and faber

I Remember, I Remember by Thomas Hood
From: Everyman鈥檚 Book of Evergreen Verse
Publ: Everyman

I See You Dancing, Father by Brendan Kennelly
From: Familiar Strangers
Publ: Bloodaxe Books

His Father, Singing by Leslie Norris
From: Collected Poems
Publ: seren

Poem by Hugh Sykes-Davies
From: English and American Surrealist Poetry
Publ: Penguin

The Way Through the Woods by Rudyard Kipling
From: The Definitive edition of Kipling鈥檚 Verse
Publ: Hodder & Stoughton

Getting Older by Elaine Feinstein
From: Collected Poems and Translations
Publ: Carcanet

The Bath by Harry Graham
From: A Century of Humorous Verse 1850-1950
Publ: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd

The Confirmation by Edwin Muir
From: Collected Poems
Publ: faber and faber

So Many Different Lengths of Time by Brian Patten
From: armada
Publ: Flamingo

30 minutes

Last on

Sat 26 Jan 2008 23:30

Broadcasts

  • Sun 20 Jan 2008 16:30
  • Sat 26 Jan 2008 23:30