Poetry Please - 13/05/2007

Marking the 40th anniversary of the death of former Poet Laureate John Masefield, Roger McGough introduces requests for works with a nautical tang, including a poem by Andrew Motion about a merman once caught off the Suffolk coast at Orford Ness. Readers are Daniel Hart, Bonnie Hurren and Iain Mitchell. Cargoes by John Masefield From: The Collected Poems Publ: William Heinemann Ltd The Unbeliever by Elizabeth Bishop From: Complete Poems Publ: Chatto & Windus A Grave by Marianne Moore From: The Faber book of Twentieth century Women's Poetry Publ: faber and faber The Chambered Nautilus by Oliver Wendell Holmes From: The Norton Anthology of Poetry (Third Edition) Publ: Norton Sea-Fever by John Masefield From: The Collected Poems Publ: William Heinemann Ltd Beauty by John Masefield From: The Collected Poems Publ: William Heinemann Ltd extract from Salt Water by Andrew Motion From: Selected Poems 1976-1997 Publ: faber and faber There's Nobody Here But Us Chickens by Elizabeth Smart From: Collected Poems Publ: Paladin The History of the Flood by John Heath-Stubbs From: The New Oxford Book of Children's Verse Publ: Oxford University Press [Rptd Sat 11.30pm] Followed by News.