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19/10/2008

Roger McGough is joined on stage at the Cheltenham Literature Festival by Pippa Haywood and Bill Hope to read funny poems about poetry readings, mathematics, oranges and cats.

The Orange by Wendy Cope
From: Serious Concerns
Publ: faber

A Brief Guide to Rhyming – or How Be the Little Busy Doth by Ogden Nash
From: You Can’t Get There From Here
Publ: JM Dent and Sons

Yours Sincerely by John Lucas
From: The Long and the Short of it
Publ: Redbeck Press

An Ordinary Poetry Reading by Roger McGough
From: Collected Poems
Publ: Viking

Welcome, Major Poet! by Sean O’Brien
From: Cousin Coat
Publ: Picador

Another Reason Why I Don’t Keep a Gun in the House by Billy Collins
From: Taking Off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes
Publ: Picador

Arithmetic by Carl Sandburg
From: Complete Poems
Publ: Harcourt

Macavity: The Mystery Cat by TS Eliot
From: The Rattle Bag
Publ: faber

The Mafia Cats by Roger McGough
From: Bad Bad Cats
Publ: Viking

The Galloping Cat by Stevie Smith
From: Bread and Roses: An Anthology of Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Poetry By Women Writers
Publ: Virago

The Book of My Enemy Has Been Remaindered by Clive James
From: Other Passports
Publ: Jonathan Cape

Domestic Asides – or Truth in Parenthesis by Thomas Hood
From: Hood Winked
Publ: Chatto and Windus

30 minutes

Last on

Sat 25 Oct 2008 23:30

Broadcasts

  • Sun 19 Oct 2008 16:30
  • Sat 25 Oct 2008 23:30