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Poems for Winter

Roger McGough with requests for wintry poems from Ted Hughes, WH Auden, Gillian Clarke and others.

30 minutes

Last on

Sat 7 Feb 2015 23:30

This Week's Poems

Snowflakes

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

From Poems

Published by Everyman鈥檚 Library 1909

Great Nights Returning

by Vernon Watkins

From The Collected Poems of Vernon Watkins

Published by Golgonooza Press 2000

The Snow Man

by Wallace Stevens

From Selected Poems

Published by Faber & Faber 1953

Snow in Europe

by David Gascoyne

From Selected Poems

Published by Enitharmon Press 1994

Gare du Midi

by WH Auden

From W.H. Auden Collected Shorter Poems

Published by Faber & Faber 1966

The Gods of Winter

by Dana Gioia

From The Gods Of Winter

Published by Gray Wolf Press 1991

Wind

by Ted Hughes

From New Selected Poems 1957-1994

Published by Faber & Faber 1995

Winter Seascape

by John Betjeman

From The Collected Poems of John Betjeman

Published by John Murray 1990

Praise Song for the day

by Elizabeth Alexander

From Praise Song For The Day

Published by Gray Wolf Press 2009

The Warm and the Cold

by Ted Hughes

From Season Songs

Published by Faber & Faber 1976

Snow in The Suburbs

by Thomas Hardy

From The Poems of Thomas Hardy

Published by Penguin 2006

Snow

by Louis MacNeice

From Collected Poems

Faber & Faber 1966

Mitte des Winters

by Georg Heym

Translated from the original German by listener Elizabeth Morris

Unpublished

The Darkling Thrush

by Thomas Hardy

From The Poems of Thomas Hardy

Published by Penguin 2006

Year鈥檚 Midnight

by Gillian Clarke

From Ice

Published by Carcanet 2012

February

by Joyce Williams

From Open Window

Published by Silver Wood Books 2010

Spring

by Andrew Motion

Unpublished

Credit

Role Contributor
Presenter Roger McGough

Broadcasts

  • Sun 1 Feb 2015 16:30
  • Sat 7 Feb 2015 23:30