Poetry Please - 18/02/2007

Marking the centenary of arguably the most important poet of the 20th century in the English language after TS Eliot, Roger McGough introduces requests for works by WH Auden. The reader is Douglas Hodge. Unless otherwise indicated, all poems in this week's edition are by W.H Auden and are taken from The Collected Shorter Poems published by faber. As I Walked Out One Evening From: AS I Walked Out One Evening, publ.faber Funeral Blues 'Stop all the Clocks' 'Stop all the Cars' by Roger McGough From: Collected Poems Publ: Viking Night Mail The Composer September 1, 1939 In Praise of Limestone From: Selected Poems, publ. faber The Unknown Citizen Excerpt from In Memory of W.B Yeats