29/06/2008
Roger McGough introduces requests for poems with a distinctly Gothic and funereal flavour, including Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven. Readers are Patrick Romer and Noni Lewis.
The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe
From: Poems and Prose
Publ: Everyman
This poem features only in the Saturday night edition
The Windhover by Gerard Manley Hopkins
From: Everyman Book of Evergreen Verse
Break, Break, Break by Tennyson
From: Selected Poems of Tennyson
Publ: MacMillan & Co
The Little Dancers by Laurence Binyon
From: The Book of a Thousand Poems
Publ: Collins Educational
Like Dolmens Around My Childhood, the Old People by John Montague
From: New Selected Poems
Publ: Bloodaxe
When You Go by Edwin Morgan
From: Collected Poems
Publ: Carcanet
Conception by Josephine Miles
From: The Faber Book of Twentieth Century Women’s Poetry
To Helen (II) by Edgar Allen Poe
From: Poems and Prose
Publ: Everyman
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