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Bubble and Squeak

Roger McGough with something for everyone, from WB Yeats to Elizabeth Barrett Browning by way of Ted Hughes and Derek Walcott. Producer Sally Heaven.

30 minutes

Last on

Sat 21 Feb 2015 23:30

This Week's Poems

Sailing to Byzantium

By WB Yeats

From The Collected Poems of WB Yeats

Published by Palgrave

 

The Idea of Order at Key West

By Wallace Stevens        

From Wallace Stevens – Collected Poems

Published by Faber and Faber

 

Verse for a Certain Dog

By Dorothy Parker

From The Collected Dorothy Parker

Published by Penguin   

 

The Licorice Fields at Pontefract

By John Betjeman

From John Betjeman – Collected Poems

Published by John Murray

 

Six Men in Search of a Car

By Paul Henry

From The Brittle Sea, New and Selected Poems

Published by Seren

               

A Model Railway

By Paul Henry   

From The Brittle Sea, New and Selected Poems

Published by Seren

                               

Acts of Love

By Pam Rehm

From Small Works

Published by Flood editions 2005

 

Love After Love

By Derek Walcott

From Collected Poems 1948-1984

Published by Faber and Faber

 

On a Portrait of Wordsworth

By Elizabeth Barrett Browning   

From Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Poetical Works

Published by Oxford University Press

 

The Lost Leader

By Robert Browning       

From Browning – Poems Selected by W.E. Williams

Published by Penguin   

                                                               

Fulbright Scholars

By Ted Hughes

From Birthday Letters

Published by Faber and Faber                                                                   

                                               

Post Script

By Gillian Clarke               

From A Recipe for Water

Published by Carcanet

 

First Sight

By Philip Larkin 

From The Whitsun Weddings

Published by Faber and Faber

                                                               

Rhyw ddiolchgarwch / A Time and a Place

By Menna Elfyn               

Translated by Elin Ap Hywel

From Perffaith Nam / Perfect Blemish: New & Selected Poems 1995-2007

Published by Bloodaxe

                                                                                                               

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Presenter Roger McGough

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  • Sun 15 Feb 2015 16:30
  • Sat 21 Feb 2015 23:30