Billy Letford
Roger McGough is joined by Billy Letford, who shares a selection of his favourite poems from the Poetry Please archive of listeners' requests.
Roger McGough is joined by Billy Letford, who shares a selection of his favourite poems from the Poetry Please archive of listeners' requests. His choices include Robert Louis Stevenson, Jen Hadfield, Emily Dickinson and Tom Leonard.
Billy Letford comes from Stirlingshire and worked in various jobs including his family's roofing business in his twenties. His debut collection Bevel was published in 2012, and his second, Dirt, was published in 2016, both by Carcanet Press.
Producer: Eliza Lomas.
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This Week's Poems
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The Lamplighter
By Robert Louis Stevenson
From Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses
Published by Golden Books Publishing Company, Inc.
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How Happy Is the Little Stone
By Emily Dickinson
From Emily Dickinson – Poems Selected by Ted Hughes
Published by Faber & Faber
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When You Go
By Edwin Morgan
From Collected Poems
Published by Carcanet
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The Choosing
By Liz Lochhead Μύ
From The Selected Poems of Liz Lochhead
Published by Polygon
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In A Bamboo Shack On The Edge of The Beach
By Billy Letford
From Dirt
Published by Carcanet Press Ltd
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Imagine You Are Driving
By John Glenday
From Grain
Published by Picador Poetry
Recording by permission from The Poetry Archive
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What the Doctor Said
By Raymond Carver
From All of Us; The Collected Poems [Raymond Carver]Μύ
Published by Penguin
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Hedgehog, Hamnavoe
By Jen Hadfield
From Nigh-No-Place
Published by Bloodaxe Μύ
Recording by permission from The Poetry Archive
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The Tragedy of The Leaves
By Charles Bukowski
From the album At Terror Street and Agony Way
Label: Vital Distribution
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The Trouble With Snowmen
By Roger McGough
From Roger McGough - Collected Poems
Published by Penguin
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The Six O’Clock News
By Tom Leonard
From Unrelated Incidents #3
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Presenter | Roger McGough |
| Interviewed Guest | Billy Letford |
| Producer | Eliza Lomas |
Broadcasts
- Sun 15 Jul 2018 16:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
- Sat 21 Jul 2018 23:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4