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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
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