Poetry Please - 05/10/2008

A great mixture of poetry today all read by Richard McCabe, Brigid Zengeni and Jonjo O'Neill The Fable of the Magnet and The Churn by WS Gilbert From: Favourite Poems Old and New Publ: Doubleday The Forge by Seamus Heaney From: Opened Ground Publ: faber Ode – We Are the Music-Makers by Arthur William Edgar O’Shaughnessy From: The Oxford Book of Victorian Verse The Kaleidoscope by Nadine Brummer From: Halfway to Madrid Publ: Shoestring Press The Toys by Coventry Patmore From: Everyman’s Book of Victorian Verse Publ: Everyman Dog in the Playground by Allan Ahlberg From: Please Mrs Butler Publ: Puffin Tipperary by Desmond O’Grady From: Tipperary Publ: Salmon Press I Haven’t Been Able to Get Anything Done Since I Met You by Debra Bruce From: Pure Daughter Publ: The University of Arkansas Press Memory of My Father by Patrick Kavanagh. From: The Rattle Bag Pub: faber My Mother With One Green Earring by Frances Wilson From: Rearranging the Sky Publ: Rockingham Press Working Late by Louis Simpson. From: The Penguin Book of Caribbean Verse The Reading Lesson by Richard Murphy From: The Penguin Book of Contemporary Irish Poetry You’ve Ruined My Evening/You’ve Ruined my Life by Tom Raworth From: Collected Poems Publ: Carcanet When I have fears by Keats From: The Poetical Works of John Keats Publ: Oxford