大象传媒

Throughout Autumn, Roger will be guiding us through a rich mixture of listeners' requests for poetry both old and new. He will also be featuring poets reading their own work; Michael Longley, Jean Sprackland, Robin Robertson and Clare Pollard.

The first programme will include work by Thomas Hardy, Carole Satyamurti and Karl Shapiro. The readers today are Mark Meadows, Jennifer Jellicorse and Catherine Cusack. There are poems about car crashes, the weather, Beethoven's lost love and one about bad behaviour in public libraries. There's escapist verse by WW Gibson and the American Shel Silverstein. There's also a sad poem about a man's fancy handwriting by a poet new to the programme, Marianne Burton. Making her debut appearance is the prize winning poet Jean Sprackland, reading 'Hard Water'. And with readings by Michael Longley too, it makes for a typically rich half an hour of poetry.

Producer: Sarah Langan.