Poetry Please - 08/02/2009

In the lead up to Valentine's Day, Roger McGough introduces listeners' requests for poems on the subject of love. Burt Caesar, Mark Meadows and Adjoa Andoh read poems by Carol Ann Duffy, Sophie Hannah and WH Auden. Hour by Carol Ann Duffy From: Rapture Published by Picador The Parting by Michael Drayton From: The Oxford Book of English Verse ed. Quiller-Couch Published by Oxford University Press Don’t Say I Said by Sophie Hannah From: Pessimism for Beginners Published by Carcanet Tell Me The Truth About Love by WH Auden From: WH Auden, Collected Shorter Poems 1927-1957 Published by Faber & Faber Valentine by John Fuller From: Collected Poems, John Fuller Published by Chatto & Windus For My Lover, Returning to His Wife by Anne Sexton From: The Chatto Book of Love Poetry Published by Chatto & Windus Love in the Launderette by Roger McGough From: Selected Poems, Roger McGough Published by Penguin For Margot Heinemann by John Cornford From: The Oxford Book of War Poetry Published by Oxford University Press And You, Helen by Edward Thomas From: Edward Thomas, Collected Poems Published by Faber & Faber How Do I Love Thee? by Elizabeth Barrett Browning From: The New Faber Book of Love Poems Published by Faber & Faber First Meeting by ASJ Tessimond From: Morning Meeting Published Autolycus Amo Ergo Sum by Kathleen Raine From: The Collected Poems of Kathleen Raine Published by Golgonooza Press