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Fleur Adcock

The guest curator is Fleur Adcock, and her choices include To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence by James Elroy Flecker, Old Man by Edward Thomas and Fleur鈥檚 own poem A Visiting Angel. Fleur brings along a sprig of something from her garden for Roger. Producer Sally Heaven.

28 minutes

Last on

Sat 25 May 2019 23:30

This Week's Poems

A Visiting Angel

By Fleur Adcock

Taken from 鈥淧oems 1960 - 2000鈥

Published by Bloodaxe

To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence

By James Elroy Flecker

Taken from 鈥淪elected Poems of James Elroy Flecker鈥

Published by Rowan Books

The Deadly Sins and the Holy Virtues 鈥 No 7 鈥 Humility

By Lorraine Mariner

Taken from 鈥淭here Will Be No More Nonsense鈥

Published by Picador

Badly Chosen Lover

By Rosemary Tonks

Taken from 鈥淏edouin of the London Evening; Collected Poems鈥

Published by Bloodaxe

I Should like to be Buried in a Summer Forest

By Helen Dunmore

Taken from 鈥淐ounting Backwards: Poems 1975 鈥 2017鈥

Published by Bloodaxe

Like Rain

By Emily Dickinson

Taken from 鈥淭he Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson鈥

Published by Faber and Faber

Extract from 鈥楶erfume鈥

By Roger McGough

From 鈥淩oger McGough 鈥 Collected Poems鈥

Published by Viking / Penguin

Old Man

By Edward Thomas

Taken from 鈥淓dward Thomas 鈥 Collected Poems鈥

Published by Faber and Faber

The Highwayman

By Alfred Noyes

Taken from 鈥淭he Highwayman鈥

Published by OUP Oxford

Broadcasts

  • Sun 19 May 2019 16:30
  • Sat 25 May 2019 23:30