27/01/2008
Roger McGough presents a selection of listeners' favourite poetry, from Yevtushenko to Yeats, read by actors including Stephen Rea, Judi Dench, Paul Scofield and Ronald Pickup.
Colours by Yevgeny Yevtushenko, translated by Robin Milner Gulland
From: Selected Poems
Publ: Penguin
Cinders by Roger McGough
From: Collected Poems
Publ: Viking
The Midnight Skaters by Edmund Blunden
From: Poems of Many Years
Publ: Collins
The Hornbeams by Felix Dennis
From: Lone Wolf
Publ: Hutchinson
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death by WB Yeats
From: The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
Publ: palgrave
The Landscape Near an Aerodrome by Stephen Spender
From: New Collected Poems
Publ: faber
Pledge to the Freight Canvasser by Carol Rumens
From: Hex
Publ: Bloodaxe
The Second Coming by W.B. Yeats
From: The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
Publ: palgrave
It Was Long Ago by Eleanor Farjeon
From: The Oxford Treasury of Time Poems
Kubla Khan by Coleridge.
From: Poems
Publ: Everyman
A Disused Shed in County Wexford by Derek Mahon
From: Selected Poems
Publ: Penguin
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