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Bubble and Squeak

Roger McGough with poetry of love, hate and everything in between on this Valentine's edition of Poetry Please. Featured poets include Harold Pinter, Carol Ann Duffy and WB Yeats, and there are readings from Fiona Shaw, Alice Arnold, Paul Mundell and Burt Caesar. Producer Sally Heaven.

30 minutes

Last on

Sat 27 Feb 2016 23:30

This Week's Poems

Distances

By Phillippe Jaccottet

Translated by Derek Mahon

From Staying Alive 鈥� Real Poems for Unreal Times

Published by Bloodaxe

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Atlas

By U A Fanthorpe

From Collected Poems 1978-2003

Published by Peterloo Poets

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Sonnet XI

By Eleanor Brown

Taken from

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September Sun: 1947

By David Gascoyne

From David Gascoyne 鈥� Selected Poems

Published by Enitharmon

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The Flight of the Sparrow

By James Harpur

From The Monk鈥檚 Dream

Published by Anvil Press Poetry

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Tree At My Window

By Robert Frost

From The Poetry of Robert Frost

Published by Jonathan Cape

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But These Things Also

By Edward Thomas

From The Collected Poems of Edward Thomas

Published by Oxford University Press

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The One-Legged Man

By Siegfried Sassoon

From Siegfried Sassoon - Collected Poems; 1908鈥�1956

Published by Faber and Faber

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Miners

By Wilfred Owen

From The Poems of Wilfred Owen

Published by The Hogarth Press

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Where the Mind is Without Fear

(Extract from Gitanjali)

By Rabindranath Tagore

From An Invitation to Poetry: A New Favorite Poem Project Anthology

Published by W. W. Norton and Company

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Winds

By Kathleen Raine

From The Collected Poems of Kathleen Raine

Published by Golgonooza

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The Dream City

By Humbert Wolfe

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Water

By Philip Larkin

From Philip Larkin 鈥� Collected Poems

Published by Faber and Faber

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Dover Beach

By Matthew Arnold

From The Oxford Book of Nineteenth-Century English Verse

Published by Oxford University Press

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Mamble

By John Drinkwater

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To My Book

By Ben Jonson

From Ben Jonson 鈥� Selected Poetry

Published by Penguin

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The Passionate Shepherd to his Love

By Christopher Marlowe

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The Indian Serenade

By Percy Bysshe Shelley

From An Oxford Anthology of English Poetry

Published by Oxford University Press

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The Glory of the Day Was In Her Face

By James Weldon Johnson

From The Poetry of Black America; Anthology of the 20th Century

Published by Harper & Row

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Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Roger McGough
Reader Fiona Shaw
Reader Alice Arnold
Reader Paul Mundell
Reader Burt Caesar
Producer Sally Heaven

Broadcasts

  • Sun 21 Feb 2016 16:30
  • Sat 27 Feb 2016 23:30