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This week鈥檚 programme includes an intriguing 鈥淓nglish ghazal鈥�, - the ghazal being a Middle-Eastern verse form not normally associated with English.

Ghazal: The Candles of the Chestnut Trees by Mimi Khalvati
From: The Meanest Flower
Publ: Carcanet

Ghazal: After Hafez by Mimi Khalvati
From: The Meanest Flower
Publ: Carcanet

In the Orchard by Muriel Stuart
From: The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century Verse
Publ: Oxford

At Last The Secret is Out by W.H. Auden
From: Collected Shorter Poems 1927-1957
Publ: faber

Be Frugal by Richard Church
From: The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century English Verse
Publ: Oxford

R.I.P by Alan Garner
From: Occasional Poets
Publ: Viking

If the Past Year Were Offered Me Again by Lady Augusta Gregory
From: Irish Poetry 鈥� an Interpretive Anthology
Publ: New York University Press

This poem features only in the Sunday afternoon edition
Heraclitus by W.J. Cory
From: Everyman鈥檚 Book of Victorian Verse

Dear Bryan Winter by W.S. Graham
From: Collected Poems 1942-1977
Publ: Faber

Far in a western brookland by A.E. Housman
From: Poems selected by Alan Hollinghurst
Publ: faber

Watermelon, the only word I have by Noel Rowe
From: The Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics

Poem for Everyone by John T Wood

The Saturday night edition finishes with Carla Bruni鈥檚
rendition of WH Auden鈥檚 At Last the Secret is Out,
from her album 鈥楴o Promises鈥�

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