Spring
Daffodils, snowmelt, green shoots and lengthening days in this spring special, presented by Roger McGough.
Daffodils, lambs, snow melt, green shoots and lengthening days... Roger McGough explores the BBC archives to find the most evocative spring poems read by some of our best actors. With poems by Alice Oswald, Laurie Lee, Robin Robertson, Philip Larkin, Kathryn Simmonds and Edward Thomas.
Producer: Mair Bosworth.
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This Week's Poems
Thaw
By Edward Thomas
From Edward Thomas - The Annotated Collected Poems
Pub: Bloodaxe
Wood Not Yet Out
By Alice Oswald
From Woods etc.
Publisher: Faber and Faber
The Year’s Awakening
By Thomas Hardy
From The Oxford Authors – Thomas Hardy
Published by Oxford University Press
Coming
By Philip Larkin
From Philip Larkin – Collected Poems
Publisher: The Marvell Press / Faber
Primavera
By Robin Robertson
From: Wild Reckoning
Publ: Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
Home Thoughts, from Abroad
By Robert Browning
From: Poems selected by WE Williams
Publ: Penguin
I So Liked Spring
By Charlotte Mew
From: Collected Poems and Prose
Publ: Carcanet
Song
By Rupert Brooke
Taken from http://www.rupertbrooke.com/poems/1912-1913/song/
Spring
By Andrew Motion
Unpublished
Spring Quiet
By Christina Rossetti
From https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/spring-quiet/
Usually March
By Kevin Nichols
From http://www.ourladyandstcolumbawallsend.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Monsignor-Kevin-Nichols.pdf
April Rise
By Laurie Lee
From Laurie Lee Selected Poems
Published by Penguin
Spring Wedding
By Andrew Motion
Taken from The Telegraph website
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1487433/Spring-Wedding.html
Spring Cleaning
By Jean Binta Breeze
From Spring Cleaning
Published by Virago Press Ltd
Recyling, April
By Kathryn Simmonds
From Sunday at the Skin Laundrette
Pub: Seren
March
By Edward Thomas
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/march-58/
Spring by Jack Underwood
From The Poetry Review in 2015
Sap
By Roger McGough
From Roger McGough Collected Poems
Published by Viking (Penguin)
Loveliest of Trees
By AE Housman
From A Shropshire Lad
Published by Hesperus Poetry
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Presenter | Roger McGough |
Producer | Mair Bosworth |
Broadcasts
- Sun 19 Mar 2017 16:30BBC Radio 4
- Sat 25 Mar 2017 23:30BBC Radio 4