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Robert Burns and More

Roger McGough with listeners' requests, including poetry by Robert Burns, Ben Okri and Gerard Manley Hopkins. with readings by Sir Ian McKellan and Liz Lochhead as well as Ariyon Bakare, Jasmine Hyde and Patrick Romer. Producer Sally Heaven.

30 minutes

Last on

Sat 30 Jan 2016 23:30

This Week's Poems

The Blackbird听

by W E Henley

Sourced from Columbia Granger鈥檚 World of Poetry Online

Stormcock in Elder by Ruth Pitter

From: Ruth Pitter Collected Poems

Pub: Enitharmon 1996

Flowers and Men

by DH Lawrence

From: DH Lawrence the Complete Poems

Pub: Penguin

The Field

by Rose Flint

Sourced from: Literaturewales.org

Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock

by Wallace Stevens 听

Sourced from Columbia Granger鈥檚 World of Poetry Online

Elegy

by Edna St Vincent Millay

From: Collected Poems

Pub: Harper & Row

I Have Been Through the Gates

by Charlotte Mew

Sourced from Columbia Granger鈥檚 World of Poetry Online

More Fishes than Stars

by Ben Okri

From: Wild by Ben Okri

Pub: Rider, 2012 (Ebury imprint)

The Explanation

by Kipling

From: The Definitive Edition of Rudyard Kipling鈥檚 Verse

Pub: Hodder & Stoughton Ltd 1989

Song of the Reed

by Rumi

Translated by Jawid Mojaddedi

From: Rumi The Masnavi Book One

Pub: Oxford World鈥檚 Classics 2004.

Bagpipe Music 听

by Louis MacNeice

From: Collected Poems

Pub: Faber

Inversnaid

by G M Hopkins

From: the Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

Pub: OUP

Now Westlin Winds

by Robert Burns

From The Poetical Works of Robert Burns

Pub: Bracken Books

The Laws of God The Laws of Man

by A. E. Housman

From the Collected Poems of A.E.Housman

Pub: Jonathan Cape

Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Roger McGough
Reader Ian McKellan
Reader Liz Lochhead
Reader Ariyon Bakare
Reader Jasmine Hyde
Reader Patrick Romer
Producer Sally Heaven

Broadcasts

  • Sun 24 Jan 2016 16:30
  • Sat 30 Jan 2016 23:30