Poems for Winter
Roger McGough with requests for wintry poems from Ted Hughes, WH Auden, Gillian Clarke and others.
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This Week's Poems
Snowflakes
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
From Poems
Published by Everyman’s Library 1909
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Great Nights Returning
by Vernon Watkins
From The Collected Poems of Vernon Watkins
Published by Golgonooza Press 2000
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The Snow Man
by Wallace Stevens
From Selected Poems
Published by Faber & Faber 1953
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Snow in Europe
by David Gascoyne
From Selected Poems
Published by Enitharmon Press 1994
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Gare du Midi
by WH Auden
From W.H. Auden Collected Shorter Poems
Published by Faber & Faber 1966
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The Gods of Winter
by Dana Gioia
From The Gods Of Winter
Published by Gray Wolf Press 1991
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Wind
by Ted Hughes
From New Selected Poems 1957-1994
Published by Faber & Faber 1995
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Winter Seascape
by John Betjeman
From The Collected Poems of John Betjeman
Published by John Murray 1990
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Praise Song for the day
by Elizabeth Alexander
From Praise Song For The Day
Published by Gray Wolf Press 2009
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The Warm and the Cold
by Ted Hughes
From Season Songs
Published by Faber & Faber 1976
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Snow in The Suburbs
by Thomas Hardy
From The Poems of Thomas Hardy
Published by Penguin 2006
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Snow
by Louis MacNeice
From Collected Poems
Faber & Faber 1966
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Mitte des Winters
by Georg Heym
Translated from the original German by listener Elizabeth Morris
Unpublished
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The Darkling Thrush
by Thomas Hardy
From The Poems of Thomas Hardy
Published by Penguin 2006
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Year’s Midnight
by Gillian Clarke
From Ice
Published by Carcanet 2012
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February
by Joyce Williams
From Open Window
Published by Silver Wood Books 2010
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Spring
by Andrew Motion
Unpublished
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Credit
| Role | Contributor |
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| Presenter | Roger McGough |
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