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Milosz and Dickinson

Roger McGough presents a selection of poems by Czeslaw Milosz and Emily Dickinson, read by Peter Marinker and Eleanor Tremain.

Roger McGough presents a selection of poems by Czeslaw Milosz and Emily Dickinson read by Peter Marinker and Eleanor Tremain. A Polish veteran of many of the upheavals of the middle of the Twentieth Century and a Nineteenth Century New Englander who kept to her house and communicated with the world by post: perhaps not much connects these poets and yet their poems speak to one another across the years. Producer: Tim Dee.

30 minutes

This Week's Poems

A Portrait with a Cat听听听听听听听听听听

By Czeslaw Milosz

From New and Collected Poems 1931-2001

Published by Penguin

That Love is all there is

By Emily Dickinson

From Emily Dickinson: Poems Selected by Ted Hughes

Published by Faber & Faber

A narrow fellow in the grass

By Emily Dickinson

From Emily Dickinson: Poems Selected by Ted Hughes

Published by Faber & Faber

How it Should Be in Heaven

By Czeslaw Milosz

From New and Collected Poems 1931-2001

Published by Penguin

I went to Heaven

By Emily Dickinson

From Emily Dickinson: Poems Selected by Ted Hughes

Published by Faber & Faber

La Belle Epoque/Trans-Siberian Railway

By Czeslaw Milosz

From New and Collected Poems 1931-2001

Published by Penguin

After great pain a formal feeling comes

By Emily Dickinson

From Emily Dickinson: Poems Selected by Ted Hughes

Published by Faber & Faber

I think the Hemlock likes to stand

By Emily Dickinson

From Emily Dickinson: Poems Selected by Ted Hughes

Published by Faber & Faber

And Yet the Books

By Czeslaw Milosz

From New and Collected Poems 1931-2001

Published by Penguin

Because I could not stop for death

By Emily Dickinson

From Emily Dickinson: Poems Selected by Ted Hughes

Published by Faber & Faber

The crickets sang and set the sun

By Emily Dickinson

From Emily Dickinson: Poems Selected by Ted Hughes

Published by Faber & Faber

Blacksmith Shop

By Czeslaw Milosz

From New and Collected Poems 1931-2001

Published by Penguin

I heard a fly buzz when I died

By Emily Dickinson

From Emily Dickinson: Poems Selected by Ted Hughes

Published by Faber & Faber

There came a wind like a bugle

By Emily Dickinson

From Emily Dickinson: Poems Selected by Ted Hughes

Published by Faber & Faber

What Passed at Colonus

Seamus Heaney

Published in the New York Review of Books 7th Oct 2004

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Roger McGough
Reader Peter Marinker
Reader Eleanor Tremain
Producer Tim Dee

Broadcasts

  • Sun 9 Mar 2014 16:30
  • Sat 15 Mar 2014 23:30