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Frank Skinner

Roger McGough returns with a new series of Poetry Please. 1/4 Writer and comedian Frank Skinner makes his selection from listeners' poetry requests

Roger McGough returns with a new series of Poetry Please, sharing listener requests and recommendations for poems they'd like to hear. His first guest is the writer and comedian Frank Skinner. A huge lover of and champion for poetry, Frank's choices from the Poetry Please post bag include poems by Liz Berry, John Betjeman, Jean Sprackland, Jen Hadfield and W.H. Auden.

Produced by Mair Bosworth for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Audio

28 minutes

Last on

Tue 3 Sep 2024 23:00

This Week's Poems

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Connemara

By Liz Berry ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý

From The Republic of MotherhoodÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý

Published by Chatto & Windus

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Dolmen

By Jen Hadfield ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý

From The Stone AgeÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý

Published by Picador

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Note from the OutsideÌýÌý

By Jean SpracklandÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý

From Hard WaterÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý

Published by Jonathan Cape

Archive courtesy of The Poetry Archive

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Vinegar

By Roger McGough

From Selected Poems 1967-1987ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý

Published by Jonathan Cape

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Prayer at the GateÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý

By PJ HarveyÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý

From OrlamÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý

Published by Picador

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Extract from Epistle to Dr ArbuthnotÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý

By Alexander Pope

From Alexander Pope - The Major Works

Published by OUP

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Night MailÌýÌý

By WH AudenÌýÌýÌýÌý

From The Collected Shorter Poems

Published by Faber and Faber

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A Subaltern’s Love Song

By John Betjeman ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý

From Collected PoemsÌýÌýÌý

Published by John Murray

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