Poetry Please - 17/02/2008

In the last of the series we featured poems by writers perhaps better-known as novelists – such as DH Lawrence, Muriel Spark, Robert Graves, and Dermot Bolger. The readers were John Mackay and Bonnie Hurren. Also rare archive of the Welsh poet WH Davies introducing and reading his poem Leisure – with those famous lines: What is this life if, full of care, We have no time to stand and stare. Piano by DH Lawrence. From: The Love Poems of D.H. Lawrence Publ: Kyle Cathie Ltd From Leinster Street Ghosts by Dermot Bolger Publ: Raven Arts Press Leisure by W.H. Davies From: The New Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1950 That Lonely Shoe Lying on the Road by Muriel Spark From: All The Poems Publ: Carcanet To Paint a Water Lily by Ted Hughes From: Lupercal Publ: faber and faber The Moth by Walter de la Mare From: The Collected Poems of Walter de la Mare Publ: faber and faber To a Mouse by Robert Burns From: The Poetical Works of Robert Burns Publ: Senate The White Goddess by Robert Graves From: Complete Poems – Volume 2 Publ: Carcanet The Rider at the Gate by John Masefield From: The Collected Poems of John Masefield Publ: William Heinemann Ltd The Mistake by James Fenton From: Out of Danger Publ: Penguin A Woman of a Certain Age by Carol Rumens From: Thinking of Skins Publ: Bloodaxe Books Going, Going by Philip Larkin From: Collected Poems Publ: faber and faber Wolsey’s Farewell from Henry the Eighth From: Shakespeare – The Viking Portable Library