Frank Skinner
Roger McGough returns with a new series of Poetry Please. 1/4 Writer and comedian Frank Skinner makes his selection from listeners' poetry requests
Roger McGough returns with a new series of Poetry Please, sharing listener requests and recommendations for poems they'd like to hear. His first guest is the writer and comedian Frank Skinner. A huge lover of and champion for poetry, Frank's choices from the Poetry Please post bag include poems by Liz Berry, John Betjeman, Jean Sprackland, Jen Hadfield and W.H. Auden.
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Connemara
By Liz Berry ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý
From The Republic of MotherhoodÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý
Published by Chatto & Windus
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Dolmen
By Jen Hadfield ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý
From The Stone AgeÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý
Published by Picador
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Note from the OutsideÌýÌý
By Jean SpracklandÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý
From Hard WaterÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý
Published by Jonathan Cape
Archive courtesy of The Poetry Archive
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Vinegar
By Roger McGough
From Selected Poems 1967-1987ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý
Published by Jonathan Cape
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Prayer at the GateÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý
By PJ HarveyÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý
From OrlamÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý
Published by Picador
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Extract from Epistle to Dr ArbuthnotÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý
By Alexander Pope
From Alexander Pope - The Major Works
Published by OUP
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Night MailÌýÌý
By WH AudenÌýÌýÌýÌý
From The Collected Shorter Poems
Published by Faber and Faber
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A Subaltern’s Love Song
By John Betjeman ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý
From Collected PoemsÌýÌýÌý
Published by John Murray
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