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05/10/2008

Roger McGough introduces listeners' requests. Including verse by Keats, Patrick Kavanagh, Alan Ahlberg and Louis Simpson. Read by Richard McCabe, Brigid Zengeni and Jonjo O'Neill.

A great mixture of poetry today all read by Richard McCabe, Brigid Zengeni and Jonjo O'Neill

The Fable of the Magnet and The Churn by WS Gilbert
From: Favourite Poems Old and New
Publ: Doubleday

The Forge by Seamus Heaney
From: Opened Ground
Publ: faber

Ode – We Are the Music-Makers by Arthur William Edgar O’Shaughnessy
From: The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse

The Kaleidoscope by Nadine Brummer
From: Halfway to Madrid
Publ: Shoestring Press

The Toys by Coventry Patmore
From: Everyman’s Book of Victorian Verse
Publ: Everyman

Dog in the Playground by Allan Ahlberg
From: Please Mrs Butler
Publ: Puffin

Tipperary by Desmond O’Grady
From: Tipperary
Publ: Salmon Press

I Haven’t Been Able to Get Anything Done Since I Met You by Debra Bruce
From: Pure Daughter
Publ: The University of Arkansas Press

Memory of My Father by Patrick Kavanagh.
From: The Rattle Bag
Pub: faber

My Mother With One Green Earring by Frances Wilson
From: Rearranging the Sky
Publ: Rockingham Press

Working Late by Louis Simpson.
From: The Penguin Book of Caribbean Verse

The Reading Lesson by Richard Murphy
From: The Penguin Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry

You’ve Ruined My Evening/You’ve Ruined my Life by Tom Raworth
From: Collected Poems
Publ: Carcanet

When I have fears by Keats
From: The Poetical Works of John Keats
Publ: Oxford

30 minutes

Last on

Sat 11 Oct 2008 23:30

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  • Sun 5 Oct 2008 16:30
  • Sat 11 Oct 2008 23:30