Poetry Please - 22/02/2009

Roger McGough introduces listeners' requests for poems by Derek Walcott, Linda Pastan and Russian poets Yevgeny Yevtushenko and Inna Kabysh. The readers are Burt Caesar, Mark Meadows and Nadia Williams. Letter from Brooklyn by Derek Walcott From Derek Walcott – Collected Poems 1948-1984 The Noonday Press People by Yevgeny Yevtushenko, translated by Robin Milner-Gulland Selected Poems – Yevtushenko Penguin The Five Stages of Grief by Linda Pastan From: The Five Stages of Grief Publ: Norton Different Beds by Roger McGough From: Selected Poems Publ: Penguin The Fallow Deer at the Lonely House by Thomas Hardy The Oxford Authors – Thomas Hardy Oxford University Press The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams From: The Oxford Book of American Poetry Daffodils by William Wordsworth From: William Wordsworth – The Major Works Publ: Oxford Love Poem by Linda Pastan From: The Norton Introduction to Literature (6th edition) Love III by George Herbert From: The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1918 To Anthea, Who May Command Him Anything by Robert Herrick From: The Poems of Robert Herrick Publ: Oxford Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare The New Faber Book of Love Poems Faber Me Cyaan Believe it by Michael Smith It a Came Creation for Liberation Making Jam in July by Inna Kabysh, trans Fay Marshall Modern Poetry in Translation New Series No.20 – 2002 My Parents Kept Me From Children Who Were Rough by Stephen Spender From: Collected Poems Publ: faber Happiness by Raymond Carver From: All of Us. Collected Poems Publ: Alfred A Knopf