Poetry Please - Episode 2

Roger McGough hosts the programme from the Latitude music and arts festival in Suffolk. Performers include Mark Steel, Simon Armitage, Rickie Lee Jones and Rachel Pantechnicon. Readers are John Lightbody and Eleanor Tremain. Causeway by Simon Armitage From: T Rex Versus The Corduroy Kid Publ: faber Friends of the River Trent by Stevie Smith From: The Collected Poems Publ: Penguin Don't Hurt Your Coccyx by Rachel Pantechnicon The Silken Tent by Robert Frost From: The Poetry of Robert Frost Publ: Jonathan Cape To His Lost Lover by Simon Armitage From: Book of Matches Publ: faber Little Boy Blue by Eugene Field From: The Oxford Book of American Light Verse Inexpensive Progress by John Betjeman From: The Collected Poems Publ: John Murray First Time In by Ivor Gurney From: Selected Poems Publ: Oxford O What is that Sound by WH Auden From: Collected Shorter Poems Publ: faber Great God Quetzalcoatl Green Hot Water Bottle by Rachel Pantechnicon The Rev’d Arbuthnot-Armitage-Brown by George Barker From: Funny Folk Publ: faber The Memories of Fish by James Tate From: Return to the City of White Donkeys Publ: ecco