Owen Sheers
Roger McGough invites Welsh poet Owen Sheers to select some of his favourite poems.
The Welsh poet Owen Sheers is Roger McGough's guest choosing some of his favourite poems. He has chosen work with an ecological theme, pieces which reflect his concern for the environment. Poems include The Horses by Edwin Muir, The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry and a new poem by Poet Laureate Simon Armitage.
Producer: Maggie Ayre
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This Week's Poems
Extract from Big Arth
By Roger McGough
From Roger McGough 鈥� Collected Poems
Published by Viking
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The Horses
by Edwin Muir
From Edwin Muir 鈥� Collected Poems
Published by Faber and Faber
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The Carriage Horses
By Owen Sheers
Recently published in The New Statesman
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The Peace of Wild Things
by Wendell Berry
From Wendell Berry听 - New Collected Poems
Published by Counterpoint
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Extract from The Moose
by Elizabeth Bishop
From Elizabeth Bishop 鈥� Complete Poems
Published by Chatto & Windus
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Extract from Autumn Journal by Louis MacNeice (section 24)
From Autumn Journal
Published by Faber & Faber
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Binsey Poplars by Gerard Manley Hopkins
From The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Published by Oxford University Press
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Welsh Ice by Menna Elfyn
Translated by Robert Minhinnick
From Perfect Blemish 鈥� New and Selected Poems 1995-2007
Published by Bloodaxe
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Ophelia by Robert Minhinnick
From PN Review
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So the Peloton Passed
By Simon Armitage
Unpublished
听Broadcasts
- Sun 6 Oct 2019 16:30大象传媒 Radio 4
- Sat 12 Oct 2019 23:30大象传媒 Radio 4