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The Poem as Portrait

Roger McGough presents a selection of requests for poems which paint a portrait, including contributions from Lord Byron, UA Fanthorpe and Charles Causley. Producer Sally Heaven.

30 minutes

Last on

Sat 4 Mar 2017 23:30

This Week's Poems

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The Idle Shepherd Boys

ÌýBy William Wordsworth

From William Wordsworth – The Major Works

Published by Oxford University Press

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The Schoolboy

By William Blake

From Blake’s Poetical Works

Published by Oxford University Press

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Nurse's Song - Innocence

By William Blake

From Blake’s Poetical Works

Published by Oxford University PressÌýÌýÌýÌý

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Nurse's Song - Experience

By William Blake

From Blake’s Poetical Works

Published by Oxford University Press

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The Road Menders

By Laurence Binyon

From The Collected Poems of Laurence Binyon Volume 2

Published by Macmillan and Co Limited

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Almswomen

By Edmund Blunden ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý

From Poems of Many Years by Edmund Blunden

Published by Collins

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The Vagabond

by John DrinkwaterÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý

From John Drinkwater Collected Poems Volume 1 1908-1917

Published by Sidgwick and Jackson Limited

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Superannuated Psychiatrist

By UA Fanthorpe

From U.A Fanthorpe – Collected Poems 1978-2003

Published by Peterloo Poets

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Chief Petty Officer

By Charles Causley

From Charles Causley – Collected Poems 1951-1997

Published by Macmillan

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Mr Bleaney

By Philip LarkinÌý

From Philip Larkin – Collected Poems

Published by Faber & Faber

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Self Portrait, 1906

By Rainer Maria Rilke ÌýÌýÌýÌý

Translated by Stephen Cohn

Taken from Rilke: New Poems

Published by Carcanet

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Self portrait

By Linda Pastan

Taken from

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She Walks in Beauty

By Lord Byron ÌýÌý

From Lord Byron – Selected Poems

Published by Bloomsbury

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When You Are Old

By WB Yeats

From Yeats

Published by Everyman

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Credits

Role Contributor
Presenter Roger McGough
Producer Sally Heaven

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  • Sun 26 Feb 2017 16:30
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