13/01/2013
Roger McGough presents requests for poems on subjects as varied as the sounds of flowing water, Tarzan as an old man, galloping cats and peaceful Sunday mornings. The readers are Patrick Romer, Kate Littlewood and Alun Raglan.
Producer: Mark Smalley.
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This Week's Poems
The Constancy of Water
By Kerry Popplewell
From Leaving the Tableland
Publisher: Steele Roberts
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Johnny Weissmuller Dead in AcapulcoÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý
By Clive James
From Other Passports – Poems 1958 – 1985
Publisher: Jonathan Cape
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Your Attention PleaseÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý
By Peter Porter
From Peter Porter – Collected Poems Vol 1, 1961 – 1981
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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The Galloping CatÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý
By Stevie Smith
From The Collected Poems of Stevie Smith
Publisher: Allen Lane
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Sunday Morning
By Wallace Stevens
From Wallace Stevens – Selected Poems
Publisher: Faber and Faber
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45 Mercy Street
By Anne Sexton
From Anne Sexton – The Complete Poems
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
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Eagle One, Eagle TwoÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý
By Charles Causley
From Charles Causley – Collected Poems
Publisher: Macmillan
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The AnniversarieÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý
By John Donne
From John Donne – Poems and Prose
Publisher: Everyman
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