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Love and the Rest

Roger McGough with poetry of love, hate and everything in between on this Valentine's edition of Poetry Please. Featured poets include Harold Pinter, Carol Ann Duffy and WB Yeats, and there are readings from Fiona Shaw, Alice Arnold, Paul Mundell and Burt Caesar. Producer Sally Heaven.

30 minutes

Last on

Sat 20 Feb 2016 23:30

This Week's Poems

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Love and Hate

by Elizabeth Siddal

From

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Extract from Modern Love

by George Meredith

From:

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The Confirmation

By Edwin Muir

From: Edwin Muir Collected Poems

Pub: Faber

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After the Rain

by Alfred Williams

From: alfredwilliams.org.uk

(official website of the Alfred Williams heritage society)ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý

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Ghetto

By Michael Longley

From: Gorse Fires

Pub: Secker & Warburg

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Who are my People?

by Rosa Zagnoni Marinoni

From: The Best Loved Poems of the American People

Pub: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupÌýÌý

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The Laboratory

by Robert Browning

From: Browning: Poems selected by W E Williams

Pub: Penguin Books

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In the Isle of Dogs

by John Davidson

From: John Davidson A Selection of his Poems

Pub: HutchinsonÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý

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It is Here

By Harold Pinter

From: Harold Pinter Collected Poems and Prose

Pub: FaberÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý

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Glove

by Angela Topping

From: angelatopping.wordpress.comÌýÌýÌýÌý

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Valentine

by Carol Ann Duffy

From: Selected Poems

Pub: PenguinÌýÌýÌýÌý

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The Stolen Child

By W BÌý Yeats

From: The Day Before The Meteor Came – Poems Along the Angel Highway

Pub: New Hope InternationalÌýÌýÌýÌý

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Batter My Heart

by John Donne

From: Donne

Pub: Everyman

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Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Roger McGough
Reader Fiona Shaw
Reader Alice Arnold
Reader Paul Mundell
Reader Burt Caesar
Producer Sally Heaven

Broadcasts

  • Sun 14 Feb 2016 16:30
  • Sat 20 Feb 2016 23:30