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Mike Garry

Roger McGough is joined by Manchester poet Mike Garry to hear his poetry choices.

Roger McGough is joined by Manchester poet Mike Garry to hear his poetry choices. For Mike music is the key to poetry, a way of introducing it to people who believe it's not for them. Mike himself has collaborated with different musicians including New Order and Philip Glass.

Producer: Maggie Ayre

28 minutes

Last on

Sun 13 Oct 2019 16:30

This Week's Poems

On the Ning Nang Nong

By Spike Milligan

From The Nation鈥檚 Favourite Comic Poems

Published by 成人快手

Timothy Winters

By Charles Causley

Taken from Collected Poems 1951 鈥 1997

Published by McMillan

鈥淵ou were there at the start aged 5鈥

By Mike Garry

Unpublished

Sonny鈥檚 Lettah

By Linton Kwesi Johnson

Taken from the CD Forces of Victory

Label: Island

He Who Owns the Whistle Rules the World

By Roger McGough

From In the Glassroom

Published by Jonathan Cape

Invisible Kisses

By Lemn Sissay

Taken from Morning Breaks in the Elevator

Published by Payback Press

Pity the Plight

By John Cooper Clarke

Taken from Luckiest Guy Alive

Published by Picador

Extract from The Mask of Anarchy

By Percy Bysshe Shelley

From Shelley鈥檚 Poetry and Prose

Published by W.W. Norton

Extract from Millenium Poem: Killing Time

By Simon Armitage

Published by Faber & Faber

Sonnet no. 8 from Clearances

By Seamus Heaney

Taken from Open Ground 鈥 Poems 1966-1996

Published by Faber & Faber

The Good Morrow

By John Donne

Taken from Donne 鈥 Poems and Prose

Published by David Campbell Publishers

Brendan Gallagher

By Jackie Kay

Taken from Two鈥檚 Company

Published by Blackie

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  • Sun 13 Oct 2019 16:30