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Canals, rivers, boats and lakes

Roger McGough presents a selection of poems on a watery theme, recorded at the Birmingham Literature Festival.

This year National Poetry Day has taken the theme of water and Poetry Please has thrown off its clothes and jumped in with a selection of poems about lakes, rivers, boats and canals. All recorded live at the Birmingham literature festival in the new Library of Birmingham, amidst the many waterways of the venice of the Midlands.

30 minutes

Last on

Sat 19 Oct 2013 23:30

This Week's Poems

Lifted

By Jo Bell

Unpublished

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Gosty Hill

By Liz Berry

Unpublished

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Canal 1977

By UA Fanthorpe

From ‘Collected Poems 1978-2003’

Published by Peterloo Poets

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Abstracted Water

By Roy Fisher

From ‘The Long and the Short of It – Poems 1955-2010’

Published by Bloodaxe

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Grand Union Bridge

By Ian Duhig

Unpublished

Ìý

Draining the Grand Union

By Tobias Hill

From ‘Zoo’

Published by Oxford University Press

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The Crick Poem

By Jo Bell

Unpublished

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The Black Delph Bride

By Liz Berry

Unpublished

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Extract from A Flight of Locks

By Jamie McKendrick

From ‘The Marble Fly’

Published by Oxford Paperbacks

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Frozen In

By Jo Bell

Unpublished

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Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Roger McGough
Producer Tim Dee

Broadcasts

  • Sun 13 Oct 2013 16:30
  • Sat 19 Oct 2013 23:30