22/02/2009
Roger McGough introduces listeners' requests for poems by Derek Walcott, Linda Pastan and Russian poets Yevgeny Yevtushenko and Inna Kabysh.
Roger McGough introduces listeners' requests for poems by Derek Walcott, Linda Pastan and Russian poets Yevgeny Yevtushenko and Inna Kabysh. The readers are Burt Caesar, Mark Meadows and Nadia Williams.
Letter from Brooklyn by Derek Walcott
From Derek Walcott – Collected Poems 1948-1984
The Noonday Press
People by Yevgeny Yevtushenko, translated by Robin Milner-Gulland
Selected Poems – Yevtushenko
Penguin
The Five Stages of Grief by Linda Pastan
From: The Five Stages of Grief
Publ: Norton
Different Beds by Roger McGough
From: Selected Poems
Publ: Penguin
The Fallow Deer at the Lonely House by Thomas Hardy
The Oxford Authors – Thomas Hardy
Oxford University Press
The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams
From: The Oxford Book of American Poetry
Daffodils by William Wordsworth
From: William Wordsworth – The Major Works
Publ: Oxford
Love Poem by Linda Pastan
From: The Norton Introduction to Literature (6th edition)
Love III by George Herbert
From: The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1918
To Anthea, Who May Command Him Anything by Robert Herrick
From: The Poems of Robert Herrick
Publ: Oxford
Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare
The New Faber Book of Love Poems
Faber
Me Cyaan Believe it by Michael Smith
It a Came
Creation for Liberation
Making Jam in July by Inna Kabysh, trans Fay Marshall
Modern Poetry in Translation New Series No.20 – 2002
My Parents Kept Me From Children Who Were Rough by Stephen Spender
From: Collected Poems
Publ: faber
Happiness by Raymond Carver
From: All of Us. Collected Poems
Publ: Alfred A Knopf
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