10/02/2013
Poetry by Sylvia Plath and others, requested by listeners and introduced by Roger McGough. Readers are Paul Mundell and Fenella Woolgar.
Poetry marking the winter of 1963, the long season of snow and cold during which the poet Sylvia Plath died. Listeners' requests for her work include Morning Song, Balloons and Wuthering Heights. The readers are Fenella Woolgar and Paul Mundell, with readings of their own work by poets Paul Farley, Eavan Boland, Jacob Polley and MR Peacocke.
Producer Christine Hall.
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This Week's Poems
White Bird Featherless (riddle)
Anon
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11th February 1963
By听 Paul Farley
From:听 The Ice Age
Published by Picador
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Balloons
By Sylvia Plath
From: Sylvia Plath, Collected Poems
Published by Faber
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Morning song
By Sylvia Plath
From: Sylvia Plath, Collected Poems
Published by Faber
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Night Feed听
By Eavan Boland
From: Eavan Boland, New Collected Poems
Published by Carcanet
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London Snow
By Robert Bridges
From: Robert Bridges鈥� Poetical Works
Published by OUP
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Wuthering Heights
By Sylvia Plath
From: Sylvia Plath, Collected Poems
Published by Faber
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Sympathy
By Emily Bront毛
From:听 Selected Bront毛 Poems
Published by Basil Blackwell
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Shall Earth no more inspire thee
By Emily Bront毛
From:听 Selected Bront毛 Poems
Published by Basil Blackwell
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Snow
By Jacob Polley
From: The Brink
Published by Picador Poetry
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Robert Frost
By Mervyn Peake
From:听 Mervyn Peake : Selected Poems
Published by Faber
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Poem for a Goodbye
By Norman MacCaig
From:听 Norman MacCaig : Collected Poems
Published by Chatto & Windus
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Explicit Snow
By Norman MacCaig
From:听 Norman MacCaig : Collected Poems
Published by Chatto & Windus
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Crossing the Water
By Sylvia Plath
From: Sylvia Plath, Collected Poems
Published by Faber
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Winter Solstice
By Meg Peacocke
From:听 In Praise of Aunts
Published by Peterloo
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She tells her love while half asleep听
By Robert Graves
From:听 The Faber Book of Twentieth Century Verse
Published by Faber
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After great pain, a formal feeling comes
By Emily Dickinson
From:听 The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Published by Faber
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Some, too fragile for winter winds
By Emily Dickinson
From:听 The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Published by Faber
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