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A wide selection of requests in this week's programme. Starting with good ingredients is always advisable, and so we kick off with ‘Ratatouille’ by Douglas Dunn. Food, however, is less important to the main character in Carol Ann Duffy’s poem, ‘Elvis’s Twin Sister’. Also, listen out for work by the great 16th century poet Pierre de Ronsard, and verse both by, and about Anna Akhmatova

Ratatouille by Douglas Dunn
From: Being Alive (anthology)
Publ: Bloodaxe

I’d like to be a Teabag by Peter Dixon
From: I’d Like to be a Teabag (anthology)
Publ: Â鶹Éç Books

Idleness by Andrew Young
From: The Poetical Works of Andrew Young
Publ: Secker and Warburg

The Paradox of Time by Pierre de Ronsard, translated by Henry Austin Dobson
From: The Complete Poetical Works of Austin Dobson
Publ: Oxford University Press

Elvis’s Twin Sister by Carol Ann Duffy
From: The World’s Wife
Publ: Picador

An Immorality by Ezra Pound
From: The Golden Journey (anthology)
Publ: Evans Brothers Ltd

The Paper Smokers by Cesare Pavese, translated by Duncan Bush
From: The Faber Book of 20th Century Italian Poems
Publ: faber

Ironing with Sue Lawley by Pauline Prior-Pitt (This poem only features in the Saturday night edition)
From: Ironing with Sue Lawley
Publ: Spike Press

Diary entry by Anna Akhmatova, translated by D.M. Thomas
From: You Will Hear Thunder
Publ: Secker and Warburg

Akhmatova in Leningrad by Carol Rumens
From: Carol Rumens 1968-2004
Publ: Bloodaxe

Epilogue by Anna Akhmatova, translated by D.M. Thomas
From: You Will Hear Thunder
Publ: Secker and Warburg

An Exequy by Peter Porter
From: Collected Poems – Volume 1
Publ: Oxford University Press

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