Words for weddings and other celebrations
Roger McGough finds words for weddings and other celebrations in poems requested by listeners. With readers Juliet Aubrey, Mark Meadows and Harry Livingstone.
Roger McGough finds words for weddings and other celebrations in poems requested by listeners. With readers Juliet Aubrey, Mark Meadows and Harry Livingstone.
Carol Ann Duffy says that 'Britain has many countries and one of them is poetry." Today's programme is all about where we go when we want words to mark a celebration and take us somewhere memorable and extraordinary, with an emphasis on weddings.
Roger includes two 'wedding' sonnets by Shakespeare, 116 and 8; 'Sunrise' by Mary Oliver; 'Poem for a North London Wedding' by Tobias Hill and Christopher Marlowe's beautiful pastoral poem: 'The Passionate Shepherd to His Love'.
Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery.
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This Week's Poems
She Was a Phantom of Delight
By William Wordsworth
From William Wordsworth 鈥� The Major Works
Published by Oxford University Press
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Sunrise
by Mary Oliver
From New and Selected Poems 鈥� Volume One
Published by Beacon Press
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Poem for a North London Wedding听
by Tobias Hill
From Zoo
Published by Oxford University Press
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Taking the Bride to the Henna Night
by Yvonne Green
From The Assay
Published by Smith / Doorstop Books
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The Farmer鈥檚 Bride
by Charlotte Mew
From The Collected Poems of Charlotte Mew
Published by Gerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
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The Passionate Shepherd to his Love
By Christopher Marlowe
From A Book of Love Poetry
Published by Oxford University Press
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Red Geranium and Godly Mignonette
By D H Lawrence
From D H Lawrence 鈥� Complete Poems
Published by Penguin
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The Wedding at Berrico
By Les Murray
From Les Murray 鈥� Collected Poems
Published by Carcanet
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Vow
by Roger McGough
From As Far As I Know
Published by Viking
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Sonnet 116
By William Shakespeare听
From Shakespeare鈥檚 Sonnets
Published by Duckworth Overlook
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Sonnet 8
By William Shakespeare
From Shakespeare鈥檚 Sonnets
Published by Duckworth Overlook
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To My Wife
by听 Nikola Vaptsarov
Translated by Peter Tempest
Taken from:
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Chimes
by Alice Meynell
From The New Poetry, An Anthology of Twentieth-Century Verse in English
Published by Macmillan
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Roger McGough |
| Reader | Juliet Aubrey |
| Reader | Mark Meadows |
| Reader | Harry Livingstone |
| Producer | Mary Ward-Lowery |
Broadcasts
- Sun 23 Jun 2013 16:30麻豆社 Radio 4 FM
- Sat 29 Jun 2013 23:30麻豆社 Radio 4