Poetry Please - 11/01/2009

Roger McGough introduces listeners' requests. Actress Lia Williams reads poems from Emily Dickinson, Emily Bronte, Carol Ann Duffy, Brian Patten, William Blake, Matthew Arnold and Harold Pinter. Plus recordings of Michael Williams reading Cecil Day Lewis's The Album and Felix Dennis reads some of his own atmospheric work. The Ambush by Brian Patten From: Collected Love Poems Publ: Harper Perennial The Effect of Coastal Processes on the Beach at Amroth by Adrian Blamires From: The Effect of Coastal Processes on the Beach at Amroth Publ: Two Rivers Press Verse Found Whilst Reading Between the Lines of a Lonely Hearts Ad by Matt Harvey From: The Hole in the Sum of My Parts Publ: The Poetry Trust Rapunzstiltskin by Liz Lochhead From: Being Alive (Anthology) Publ: Bloodaxe I Cannot Live With You by Emily Dickinson From: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson Publ: Faber London by ASJ Tessimond From: Voices in a Giant City Publ: William Heinemann The Album by Cecil Day Lewis From: The Complete Poems of C Day-Lewis Publ: Sinclair-Stevenson Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold From: The Oxford Book of English Verse My Three Rivers by Lotte Kramer From: The Phantom Lane Publ: Rockingham Press One Need Not be a Chamber by Emily Dickinson From: The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson Publ: faber and faber It is Here by Harold Pinter From: Various Voices : Prose, Poetry, Politics Publ: Faber I Know the Place by Harold Pinter From: Collected Poems and Prose Publ: Methuen High Waving Heather by Emily Brontë From: Brontë - Poems Publ: Everyman My Literary Career So Far by Adrian Mitchell Unpublished