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Colours

Roger McGough brings poetry of love and of colours: blue, green, crimson, silver... from poets as varied as Christopher Marlowe and ee cummings. The readers are Indira Varma and Tim Pigott-Smith.

Producer Beth O'Dea.

30 minutes

Last on

Sat 3 Oct 2015 23:30

This Week's Poems

Elegia V, Corinnae Concubitus

By Christopher Marlowe

From Heaven on Earth: 101 Happy Poems

Published by Faber and Faber

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A Beautiful Young Nymph Going To BedÌý

By Jonathan Swift

From Jonathan Swift: A Critical Edition of the Major Works

Published by Oxford University Press

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Gift

By Czeslaw Milosz

(translated from the Polish by the author)

From Being Alive

Published by Bloodaxe Books

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stand with your lover on the ending earth

By ee cummings

From E.E. Cummings – Complete Poems 1904-1962

Published by Liveright

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Romance

By W.J. Turner

From The New Oxford Book of Children’s Verse

Published by Oxford University Press

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Love After Love

By Derek Walcott

From Being Alive

Published by Bloodaxe Books

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Under

By J.C. Squire

From The Faber Book of Twentieth Century Verse

Published by Faber and Faber

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Ever After

By Maggie Sawkins

From The Zig Zag Woman by Maggie Sawkins

Published by Two Ravens Press

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Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal, Now the White

By Alfred Lord Tennyson

From Alfred Lord Tennyson: Selected Poems

Published by Penguin Classics

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Poems Of Solitary Delights

By Tachibana Akemi

Translated by Geoffrey Bownas and Anthony Thwaite

From Heaven on Earth: 101 Happy Poems

Published by Faber and Faber

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On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer

By John Keats

From Heaven on Earth: 101 Happy Poems

Published by Faber and Faber

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A Birthday

By Christina Rossetti

From The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse

Published by Oxford University Press

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Colours

By Yevgeny Yevtushenko

Translated by Peter Levi and Robin Milner-Gulland

From: Yevtushenko: Selected Poems: Selected Poems

Published by Penguin Classics

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For the Bed at Kelmscott

By William Morris

From William Morris: Selected Poems

Published by Carcanet

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Sweet and low, sweet and low

By Alfred Lord Tennyson

From Alfred Lord Tennyson: Selected Poems

Published by Penguin Classics

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Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Roger McGough
Reader Indira Varma
Reader Tim Pigott-Smith
Producer Beth O'Dea

Broadcasts

  • Sun 27 Sep 2015 16:30
  • Sat 3 Oct 2015 23:30