Poetry Please - 25/05/2008

A wide selection of requests in this week's programme. Starting with good ingredients is always advisable, and so we kick off with ‘Ratatouille’ by Douglas Dunn. Food, however, is less important to the main character in Carol Ann Duffy’s poem, ‘Elvis’s Twin Sister’. Also, listen out for work by the great 16th century poet Pierre de Ronsard, and verse both by, and about Anna Akhmatova Ratatouille by Douglas Dunn From: Being Alive (anthology) Publ: Bloodaxe I’d like to be a Teabag by Peter Dixon From: I’d Like to be a Teabag (anthology) Publ: BBC Books Idleness by Andrew Young From: The Poetical Works of Andrew Young Publ: Secker and Warburg The Paradox of Time by Pierre de Ronsard, translated by Henry Austin Dobson From: The Complete Poetical Works of Austin Dobson Publ: Oxford University Press Elvis’s Twin Sister by Carol Ann Duffy From: The World’s Wife Publ: Picador An Immorality by Ezra Pound From: The Golden Journey (anthology) Publ: Evans Brothers Ltd The Paper Smokers by Cesare Pavese, translated by Duncan Bush From: The Faber Book of 20th Century Italian Poems Publ: faber Ironing with Sue Lawley by Pauline Prior-Pitt (This poem only features in the Saturday night edition) From: Ironing with Sue Lawley Publ: Spike Press Diary entry by Anna Akhmatova, translated by D.M. Thomas From: You Will Hear Thunder Publ: Secker and Warburg Akhmatova in Leningrad by Carol Rumens From: Carol Rumens 1968-2004 Publ: Bloodaxe Epilogue by Anna Akhmatova, translated by D.M. Thomas From: You Will Hear Thunder Publ: Secker and Warburg An Exequy by Peter Porter From: Collected Poems – Volume 1 Publ: Oxford University Press