
Don Paterson
Roger McGough talks to prize winning poet Don Paterson as he chooses poetry requested by listeners, including work by Robert Frost, Paul Muldoon and Alice Oswald. Produced by Sally Heaven.
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This Week's Poems
Words
By Sylvia Plath
Taken from “Selected Poems”
Published by Faber & Faber
The Lammas Hireling
By Ian Duhig
Taken from “The Lammas Hireling”
Published by Picador
Birches
By Robert Frost
Taken from “The Road Not Taken and Other Poems”
Published by Penguin
Waiting for the Barbarians
By Constantine Cavafy
Taken from “101 Poems Against War”
Published by Faber & Faber
Cairo Jag
By Keith Douglas
Taken from Anthology of Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry
Published by Oxford University Press
Anseo
By Paul Muldoon
Taken from “Why Brownlee Left”
Published by Harper Perennial
Having a Coke
By Frank O’Hara
Taken from “Selected Poems”
Published by Random House
Wedding
By Alice Oswald
Taken from “The New Faber Book of Love Poems”
Published by Faber & Faber
Birthmarks
By Mick Imlah
Taken from “Selected Poems of Mick Imlah”
Published by Faber & Faber
Mercies
By Don Paterson
Taken from “40 Sonnets”
Published by Faber & Faber
Broadcasts
- Sun 24 Feb 2019 16:30ѿý Radio 4
- Sat 2 Mar 2019 23:30ѿý Radio 4