Poetry Please - 20/05/2007

Roger McGough introduces requests for poems that mark life's turning points. Featured writers include Thom Gunn, Kahlil Gibran and Helen Dunmore. Readers are Amanda Horlock, Iain Mitchell and Duncan Bonner. [Rptd Sat 11.30pm] Baby Song by Thom Gunn From: Collected Poems Publ: faber and faber Touch by Michael Donaghy From: Shibboleth Publ: Oxford University Press Prayer before Birth by Louis MacNeice From: Collected Poems Publ: faber and faber Sammy by Willie Russell From: Blood Brothers Publ: Methuen Drama Rites of Passage by Thom Gunn From: Collected Poems Publ: faber and faber She Pops Home by Cal Clothier Unpublished Homecoming by Simon Armitage From: CloudCuckooLand Publ: faber and faber from The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran Publ: William Heinemann my father moved by ee cummings From: Complete Poem 1904-1962 Publ: Liveright Arthur Makes an Inventory by Laurence Lerner From: The Life and Opinions of a Digital Computer Publ: The Harvester Press I Should Like to be Buried in a Summer Forest by Helen Dunmore From: Out of the Blue - Poems 1975-2001 Publ: Bloodaxe Books Dust by Elizabeth Jennings From: Collected Poems 1953-1985 Publ: Carcanet