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Christmas with Roger Robinson and Liz Lochhead

Roger Robinson and Liz Lochhead join Roger to share favourite seasonal poems, including wintry offerings from Emily Dickinson, Paul Laurence Dunbar and Jacob Polley.

Producer Sally Heaven

28 minutes

Last on

Sat 31 Dec 2022 21:30

This Week's Poems


In the Bleak Midwinter

By Christina Rossetti

From Christina Rossetti - Complete Poems

Published by Penguin Classics

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In the Mid Midwinter

by Liz Lochhead

From Fugitive Colours

Published by Polygon

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Before The Ice

By Emily Dickinson

From The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Published by Faber & Faber

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Little Tree

by ee Cummings

From ee cummings – Complete Poems 1904-1962

Published by Liveright

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The Eve of St Agnes

By John Keats

From John Keats: The Complete Poems

Published by Penguin Classics

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The Trouble With Snowmen

By Roger McGough

From All the Best: The Selected Poems of Roger McGough

Published by Puffin

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Snow

by Louis MacNeice

From Collected Poems

Faber & Faber

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It Will Snow Before Long

By Jacob Polley

From The Havocs

Published by Picador

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The New Puppies

By Roger Robinson

From Suitcase

Published by Waterways Press

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The Christmas Basketball Game

By Elontra Hall

Unpublished

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To A Mouse

By Robert Burns

From Robert Burns: Selected Poems

Published by Bloomsbury

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Christmas Carol

By Paul Laurence Dunbar

From The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar

Published by Dodd, Mead and Company, 1922

Music composed by James Walton

Performed by the Ö÷²¥´óÐã Singers

Arrangement by Clare Wheeler


Broadcasts

  • Christmas Day 2022 23:00
  • Sat 31 Dec 2022 21:30