
40th anniversary special with Cerys Matthews
To celebrate the programme's 40th birthday, Cerys Matthews interviews Roger McGough about his favourite poetry. Producer Sally Heaven.
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This Week's Poems
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To Poetry Please
By Roger McGough
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Extract from Joined Up Writing
By Roger McGough
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Extract from Roger McGough’s poem for Charles Causley on his 70th birthday
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Eden Rock
By Charles Causley
Collected Poems 1951-1997
Published by Macmillan
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A Child is Singing
By Adrian Mitchell
From Come on Everybody
Published by Bloodaxe
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Extract from Figs from Thistles: First Fig
By Edna St. Vincent Millay
From Collected Poems
Published by Harper Perennial Modern Classics
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Travel
By Edna St Vincent Millay
From Collected Poems
Published by Harper Perennial Modern Classics
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The First Men on Mercury
By Edwin Morgan
From Edwin Morgan – Collected Poems
Published by Carcanet
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Goblin Market
By Christina Rossetti
From Christina Rossetti – Selected Poems
Published by Penguin Classics
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A Child’s Nightmare
By Robert Graves
From Robert Graves - The Complete Poems
Published by Penguin Modern Classics
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An Ordinary Day
By Norman MacCaig
From Norman MacCaig - Collected Poems
Published by Chatto & Windus
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The Way Things Are
By Roger McGough
From The Way Things Are
Published by Viking
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What is Now Will Soon be Past
By Yrsa Daley-Ward
From Bone
Published by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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