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10/02/2008

Roger McGough introduces requests for poems taking a wry look at love. Featured poets include Wendy Cope and RS Thomas. Readers are Mark Meadows, Kate Littlewood and Gabriel Woolf.

Not Love, Perhaps by ASJ Tessimond
From: Voices in a Giant City
Publ: William Heinemann Ltd

Advice to a Discarded Lover by Fleur Adcock
From: Poems 1960 – 2000
Publ: Bloodaxe Books

Never Give all the Heart by W.B. Yeats
From: W.B. Yeats – The Major Works
Publ: Oxford

After An Argument We Didn’t Have by Kate Scott
From: Stitches
Publ: Peterloo Poets

Out of the Chaos of My Doubt by Mervyn Peake
From: Selected Poems
Publ: faber and faber

First Love by John Clare
From: The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse

I Do Not Love Thee by Lady Caroline Norton.
From: The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1900

Bloody Men by Wendy Cope
From: Serious Concerns
Publ: faber and faber

A Marriage by R.S. Thomas
From: Collected Later Poems 1988-2000
Publ: Bloodaxe Books

somewhere I have never travelled by ee cummings
From: Complete Poems – 1904 – 1962
Publ: Liveright

The Baite by John Donne
From: Poems
Publ: Everyman

Man and Wife by Robert Lowell
From: Robert Lowell’s Poems – A Selection
Publ: faber and faber

The House is Not the Same Since You Left by Henry Normal
From: Nude Modelling for the Afterlife
Publ: Bloodaxe Books

The Priest’s Confession by Daniel Huws
From: The Quarry
Publ: faber and faber

Vinegar by Roger McGough
From: Collected Poems
Publ: Viking

No Coward Soul is Mine by Emily Brontë
From: Brontë – Poems
Publ: Everyman

30 minutes

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Sat 16 Feb 2008 23:30

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  • Sun 10 Feb 2008 16:30
  • Sat 16 Feb 2008 23:30