Poetry Please - Episode 1

Roger McGough presents a selection of poems requested by listeners. Featured works include John Gay's Trivia, AK Ramanujan's Small Scale Reflections on a Great House, Tony Connor's On the Cliff, John Keats' Ode on a Grecian Urn and Wallace Stevens' Anecdote of the Jar. The readers are John Telfer and Hayley Doherty. Morning at the Window by T.S. Eliot From: Prufrock and Other Observations Publ: faber Extracts from Trivia; or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London by John Gay From: The Poetical Works of John Gay Publ: Oxford University Press Small-Scale Reflections on a Great House by A.K. Ramanujan From: The Oxford Book of Contemporary Verse 1945-1980 Publ: Oxford University Press On Not Writing a Letter From Iona by Carol Satyamurti From: Stitching the Dark Publ: Bloodaxe To Go to Lvov by Adam Zagajewski, translated Renata Corczynski From: Without End Publ: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux Majorca by John Cooper-Clarke From: Ten Years in an Open-Neck Stuffed Shirt Publ: Arena Books Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats From: The Poetical Works of John Keats Publ: Oxford University Press Anecdote of the Jar by Wallace Stevens From: Selected Poems Publ: faber and faber The Hung Wu Vase by Robert Graves From: Collected Poems Publ: Cassell Seeing by Kenneth Steven From: Salt and Light (published September 07) Publ: Saint Andrew Press The Watch by May Swenson From: The Harper Anthology of Poetry