Selection of favourite poetry requested by listeners 1.2
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Episode 1 31st January 2010
Roger introduces listeners' requests, including Stevie Smith's galloping cat and Les Murray's poem defining the quintessentially Australian quality of 'sprawl'. Plus a whirling drunken evening with Tony Harrison and a recollection of high summer from Sylvia Plath and Robert Graves. The readers are Tanya Moodie, John Telfer and David Henry.
Poems featured in this programme: Broken Images // by Robert Graves The Seed Shop // by Muriel Stuart The Quality of Sprawl // by Les Murray The Galloping Cat // by Stevie Smith Wild Strawberries // by Robert Graves Blackberrying // by Sylvia Plath Marked With 'D' // by Tony Harrison Nuns // by Mark Haddon What Lips My Lips Have Kissed // by Edna St Vincent Millay Postscript // by Seamus Heaney