Colours
Roger McGough brings poetry of love and of colours: blue, green, crimson, silver... from poets as varied as Christopher Marlowe and ee cummings. The readers are Indira Varma and Tim Pigott-Smith.
Producer Beth O'Dea.
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This Week's Poems
Elegia V, Corinnae Concubitus
By Christopher Marlowe
From Heaven on Earth: 101 Happy Poems
Published by Faber and Faber
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A Beautiful Young Nymph Going To Bed听
By Jonathan Swift
From Jonathan Swift: A Critical Edition of the Major Works
Published by Oxford University Press
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Gift
By Czeslaw Milosz
(translated from the Polish by the author)
From Being Alive
Published by Bloodaxe Books
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stand with your lover on the ending earth
By ee cummings
From E.E. Cummings 鈥� Complete Poems 1904-1962
Published by Liveright
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Romance
By W.J. Turner
From The New Oxford Book of Children鈥檚 Verse
Published by Oxford University Press
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Love After Love
By Derek Walcott
From Being Alive
Published by Bloodaxe Books
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Under
By J.C. Squire
From The Faber Book of Twentieth Century Verse
Published by Faber and Faber
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Ever After
By Maggie Sawkins
From The Zig Zag Woman by Maggie Sawkins
Published by Two Ravens Press
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Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal, Now the White
By Alfred Lord Tennyson
From Alfred Lord Tennyson: Selected Poems
Published by Penguin Classics
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Poems Of Solitary Delights
By Tachibana Akemi
Translated by Geoffrey Bownas and Anthony Thwaite
From Heaven on Earth: 101 Happy Poems
Published by Faber and Faber
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On First Looking into Chapman鈥檚 Homer
By John Keats
From Heaven on Earth: 101 Happy Poems
Published by Faber and Faber
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A Birthday
By Christina Rossetti
From The New Oxford Book of Victorian Verse
Published by Oxford University Press
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Colours
By Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Translated by Peter Levi and Robin Milner-Gulland
From: Yevtushenko: Selected Poems: Selected Poems
Published by Penguin Classics
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For the Bed at Kelmscott
By William Morris
From William Morris: Selected Poems
Published by Carcanet
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Sweet and low, sweet and low
By Alfred Lord Tennyson
From Alfred Lord Tennyson: Selected Poems
Published by Penguin Classics
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Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Roger McGough |
| Reader | Indira Varma |
| Reader | Tim Pigott-Smith |
| Producer | Beth O'Dea |
Broadcasts
- Sun 27 Sep 2015 16:30麻豆社 Radio 4
- Sat 3 Oct 2015 23:30麻豆社 Radio 4