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Frank Skinner

Roger McGough returns with a new series of Poetry Please. 1/4 Writer and comedian Frank Skinner makes his selection from listeners' poetry requests

Roger McGough returns with a new series of Poetry Please, sharing listener requests and recommendations for poems they'd like to hear. His first guest is the writer and comedian Frank Skinner. A huge lover of and champion for poetry, Frank's choices from the Poetry Please post bag include poems by Liz Berry, John Betjeman, Jean Sprackland, Jen Hadfield and W.H. Auden.

Produced by Mair Bosworth for 成人快手 Audio

28 minutes

Last on

Tue 3 Sep 2024 23:00

This Week's Poems

Connemara

By Liz Berry 听听听听听听听

From The Republic of Motherhood听听听听听听听听听听

Published by Chatto & Windus

Dolmen

By Jen Hadfield 听听听听听

From The Stone Age听听听听听听

Published by Picador

Note from the Outside听听

By Jean Sprackland听听听听听听听听听

From Hard Water听听听听听听听听听听听听

Published by Jonathan Cape

Archive courtesy of The Poetry Archive

Vinegar

By Roger McGough

From Selected Poems 1967-1987听听听听听听听听听听听听听

Published by Jonathan Cape

Prayer at the Gate听听听听听听听听听听

By PJ Harvey听听听听听听

From Orlam听听听听听听听

Published by Picador

Extract from Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot听听听听听听听听

By Alexander Pope

From Alexander Pope - The Major Works

Published by OUP

听听听听听听听听听听听听听听

Night Mail听听

By WH Auden听听听听

From The Collected Shorter Poems

Published by Faber and Faber

听听听听听听听听听听听听听听

A Subaltern鈥檚 Love Song

By John Betjeman 听听听听听听听听听听

From Collected Poems听听听

Published by John Murray

Broadcasts

  • Tue 4 Jun 2024 16:00
  • Tue 3 Sep 2024 23:00