Poetry Please - Poets Laureate
Daljit Nagra chooses Poetry Please: Poets Laureate with a selection of poets including Betjeman and Carol Ann Duffy. From 2014.
It's 50 years since John Betjeman was appointed Poet Laureate.
To mark the occasion Daljit Nagra chooses 'Poetry Please: Poets Laureate' with Roger McGough and a selection of works by Poets Laureate past and present.
These include Wordsworth, Tennyson, Betjeman, Ted Hughes and Carol Ann Duffy.
There's also a Cecil Day Lewis poem read by his son Daniel Day-Lewis, recorded as part of the exhibition 'Poetry for the Palace: Poets Laureate from Dryden to Duffy' at The Queen's Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse.
Readers: Anton Lesser and Alice Arnold.
Producer: Sally Heaven
First broadcast on Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4 in September 2014.
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This week's poems
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ÌýThe Reverie of Poor Susan
by William Wordsworth
From Common Ground; an Anthology
Published by Carcanet Press
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Happy the Man- part of John Dryden’s translation of Horace’s Odes. Extract from ‘Horace, Odes, Book III, xxix’
Taken from Dryden – Selected Poems.
Published by Longman
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The Cataract of Lodore
by Robert Southey
From Southey’s Poems
Published by Oxford University Press
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Break, Break, Break
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
From Selected Poems of Tennyson
Published by Macmillan
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To the River Lodon
by Thomas Wharton
Taken from
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Extract from There is a Hill
by Robert Bridges
From Robert Bridges’ Poetical Works
Oxford University Press
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Sea Fever
by John Masefield
Taken from John Masefield – Collected Poems
Published by William Heinemann Ltd
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Children Leaving Â鶹ԼÅÄ
by C. Day Lewis
From C. Day Lewis - The Complete Poems
Published by Sinclair-Stevenson
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Dilton Marsh Halt
by John Betjeman
From John Betjeman – Collected Poems
Published by John Murray
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Horses
by Ted Hughes
From Ted Hughes – New Selected Poems 1957-1994
Published by Faber
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Spring Wedding
by Andrew Motion
Taken from The Telegraph website
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English Elms
by Carol Ann Duffy
Taken from Â鶹ԼÅÄ Newsnight website
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Charge of the Light Brigade
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
From Selected Poems of Tennyson
Published by MacmillanÌý
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Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Roger McGough |
| Reader | Daniel Day-Lewis |
| Reader | Anton Lesser |
| Reader | Alice Arnold |
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