
Journeys
Roger McGough goes on a journey in the company of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, CP Cavafy, Matthew Arnold and Sir Gawain. Producer Sally Heaven.
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This Week's Poems
Ulysses
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
From Selected Poems
Published by Penguin Classics
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The Spell of The Yukon
by Robert Service
From The Best of Robert Service
Published by Ernest Benn
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Extract from The Golden Journey to Samarkand
by James Elroy Flecker
From Selected poems of James Elroy Flecker
Published by Rowan Books
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Extract from The Canterbury Tales
by Geoffrey Chaucer
Translated by David Wright
Published by Oxford University Press
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Extract from Sohrab and Rustum
by Matthew Arnold
From The Everyman Book of Narrative Verse,
Published by JM Dent & Sons
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A Sea Song
by Allan Cunningham
From A Book of Scottish Verse
Published by St Martin’s Press
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Ithaka
by CP Cafavy
translated by John Mavrogordato
From A Literary Companion to Travel in Greece
Published by Penguin
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Extract from Mort D’Artur
by Alfred Lord Tennyson
From Selected Poems
Published by Penguin Classics
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Citizen of The World
by Dave Calder
From A Big Bunch of Poems by Dave Calder
Published by Other Publications
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The Road not Taken
by Robert Frost
From Frost: Poems
Published by Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets
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Extracts from Gawain and the Green Night
From both traditional and Simon Armitage Translation
Published by Faber & Faber
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Old Woman of The Roads
by Padraic Colum
From Irish Verse: An Anthology
Published by Dover Publications
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Presenter | Roger McGough |
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