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Journeys

Roger McGough goes on a journey in the company of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, CP Cavafy, Matthew Arnold and Sir Gawain. Producer Sally Heaven.

30 minutes

Last on

Sat 7 Mar 2015 23:30

This Week's Poems

Ulysses

by Alfred Lord Tennyson

From Selected Poems

Published by Penguin Classics

The Spell of The Yukon

by Robert Service

From The Best of Robert Service

Published by Ernest Benn

Extract from The Golden Journey to Samarkand

by James Elroy Flecker

From Selected poems of James Elroy Flecker

Published by Rowan Books

Extract from The Canterbury Tales

by Geoffrey Chaucer

Translated by David Wright

Published by Oxford University Press

Extract from Sohrab and Rustum

by Matthew Arnold

From The Everyman Book of Narrative Verse,

Published by JM Dent & Sons

A Sea Song

by Allan Cunningham

From A Book of Scottish Verse

Published by St Martin鈥檚 Press

Ithaka

by CP Cafavy

translated by John Mavrogordato

From A Literary Companion to Travel in Greece

Published by Penguin

Extract from Mort D鈥橝rtur

by Alfred Lord Tennyson

From Selected Poems

Published by Penguin Classics

Citizen of The World

by Dave Calder

From A Big Bunch of Poems by Dave Calder

Published by Other Publications

The Road not Taken

by Robert Frost

From Frost: Poems

Published by Everyman鈥檚 Library Pocket Poets

Extracts from Gawain and the Green Night

From both traditional and Simon Armitage Translation

Published by Faber & Faber

Old Woman of The Roads

by Padraic Colum

From Irish Verse: An Anthology

Published by Dover Publications

Credit

Role Contributor
Presenter Roger McGough

Broadcasts

  • Sun 1 Mar 2015 16:30
  • Sat 7 Mar 2015 23:30