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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.

30 minutes

Last on

Sat 25 Mar 2017 23:30

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Unpublished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
Presenter Roger McGough
Producer Mair Bosworth

Broadcasts

  • Sun 19 Mar 2017 16:30
  • Sat 25 Mar 2017 23:30