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Owen Sheers

Roger McGough invites Welsh poet Owen Sheers to select some of his favourite poems.

The Welsh poet Owen Sheers is Roger McGough's guest choosing some of his favourite poems. He has chosen work with an ecological theme, pieces which reflect his concern for the environment. Poems include The Horses by Edwin Muir, The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry and a new poem by Poet Laureate Simon Armitage.

Producer: Maggie Ayre

28 minutes

Last on

Sat 12 Oct 2019 23:30

This Week's Poems

Extract from Big Arth

By Roger McGough

From Roger McGough – Collected Poems

Published by Viking

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The Horses

by Edwin Muir

From Edwin Muir – Collected Poems

Published by Faber and Faber

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The Carriage Horses

By Owen Sheers

Recently published in The New Statesman

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The Peace of Wild Things

by Wendell Berry

From Wendell BerryÌý - New Collected Poems

Published by Counterpoint

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Extract from The Moose

by Elizabeth Bishop

From Elizabeth Bishop – Complete Poems

Published by Chatto & Windus

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Extract from Autumn Journal by Louis MacNeice (section 24)

From Autumn Journal

Published by Faber & Faber

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Binsey Poplars by Gerard Manley Hopkins

From The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

Published by Oxford University Press

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Welsh Ice by Menna Elfyn

Translated by Robert Minhinnick

From Perfect Blemish – New and Selected Poems 1995-2007

Published by Bloodaxe

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Ophelia by Robert Minhinnick

From PN Review

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So the Peloton Passed

By Simon Armitage

Unpublished

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Broadcasts

  • Sun 6 Oct 2019 16:30
  • Sat 12 Oct 2019 23:30