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07/09/2014

Roger McGough presents a mixed bag as requested by listeners, including poems by Allan Ahlberg and DH Lawrence for teachers returning to work, and Keats' classic autumnal ode.

Roger McGough presents a mixed bag as requested by listeners, including poems by Allan Ahlberg and DH Lawrence for teachers returning to work, Keats' classic Autumnal ode, and watery poetry by Thomas Hardy and Charles Tomlinson. There's also James Joyce and Thom Gunn, and Sean Street reading his paean to a jazz great, 'Hearing Buddy Bolden'.

30 minutes

Last on

Sat 13 Sep 2014 23:30

This Week's Poems

Swimming Chenango Lake

By Charles Tomlinson

From Collected Poems

Published by Oxford UP

Under the Waterfall

By Thomas Hardy

From The Oxford Authors: Thomas Hardy

Published by Oxford UP

To Autumn

By John Keats

From Poems selected by Andrew Motion

Published by Faber & Faber

School Bell (aka The Last Lesson)

By DH Lawrence

From Complete Poems

Published by Penguin

Scissors

By Allan Ahlberg

From Please Mrs Butler

Published by Puffin Books

The Bridge

By John Redwood Anderson

From Poems for Pleasure: An Anthology by AF Scott (Book II)

Published by Cambridge UP

Hearing Buddy Bolden

By Sean Street

From Jazz Time

Published by Lapwing Publications

She Weeps Over Rahoon

By James Joyce

From Poems and Shorter Writings

Published by Faber & Faber

On the Move

Thom Gunn

From Collected Poems

Published by Faber & Faber

A Brief for the Defense

By Jack Gilbert

From Refusing Heaven

Published by Knopf

Altar Smoke

By Rosalie Grayer

From The Golden Books Family Treasury of Poetry (selected by Louis Untermeyer)

Published by Golden Books, New York

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Roger McGough
Producer Sally Heaven

Broadcasts

  • Sun 7 Sep 2014 16:30
  • Sat 13 Sep 2014 23:30