Poetry Please - Episode 7

Roger McGough presents poems which use as imagery the sea, trees and autumn fruits. The theme of summer food leads to a delightful piece about an end-of-school picnic which hints at grown-up pleasures to come. The readers are Phyllida Nash, Jenny Coverack, Tom Lawrence and Peter Marinker. Diving for Pearls by Virginia Warbey From: Ratified Publ: The Merdon Marque The Sea-House by Kathleen Jamie From: Mr and Mrs Scotland are Dead Publ: Bloodaxe Books The River by Mary Oliver From: Dream Work Publ: Atlantic Monthly Press August by Mary Oliver From: New Selected Poems Publ: Beacon Press The Cider House by Leonard Clark From: Forest and Vale and High Blue Hill Publ: Cassell Birches by Robert Frost From: The Poetry of Robert Frost Publ: Jonathan Cape Planting Trees by V.H. Friedlaender From: Spirit of the Trees Publ: Society of the Men of Trees Binsey Poplars by Gerard Manley Hopkins From: Hopkins Publ: Everyman Landscape with Dog by Paul Mariani From: Poems from a Small Planet – Contemporary American Nature Poetry Publ: Middlebury College Press Inscription on the Monument of a Newfoundland Dog by Lord Byron From: The Poetical Works of Lord Byron Publ: Oxford University Press One of Our Saint Bernard Dogs is Missing by N.F. Simpson From: The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of the English Language Publ: Cambridge University Press Lone Dog by Irene McLeod From: The New Oxford Book of Children’s Verse Publ: Oxford University Press The Picnic by John Logan From: Voices, third book Publ: Penguin