
05/02/2012
Roger McGough presents poetry requests read by John Sessions and Lisa Kerr, including poems by Philip Larkin, DH Lawrence and Kathryn Simmonds.
Roger McGough with a rich mixture of poetry requests read by John Sessions and Lisa Kerr.
Poems of temptation, and of lost loves and places, featuring a couple of snakes, a rusty fridge and a talking bull walrus. With W.S. Graham's lovely poem of longing for a favourite place from childhood, Loch Thom, and Kathryn Simmonds reads her own poems, including a love poem about a couple united by their dislike of the film The Fifth Element. There's a dash of acidity from Philip Larkin and a healthy dose of danger in a couple of snake poems by Denise Levertov and D.H. Lawrence. There's also a deceptive villanelle by Elizabeth Bishop and an unlikely conversation in a poem by the late Canadian poet Alden Nowlen.
Producer: Sarah Langan.
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