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Salena Godden

Salena Godden talks to Roger McGough about her favourite poetry, with a selection including Dorothy Parker, Joelle Taylor and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Producer Sally Heaven.

28 minutes

Last on

Sat 23 Mar 2019 23:30

This Week's Poems

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Soup

by Salena Godden

From Pessimism Is For Lightweights

Published by Rough Trade Books

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Mod Poem

by Jock Scot

Taken from the CD ‘The Caledonian Blues’

Label: Invada Records ‎

Cat no: INV016

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Extract from By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept

by Elizabeth Smart

Published by 4th Estate/Harper Collins UK

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Kubla Khan

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

From Coleridge – Poetical Works

Published by Oxford University Press

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Extract From New Stole

By Tricky Featuring Francesca Belmonte

Taken from the CD Ununiform

Label: NoPaper Records

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Whitey on the Moon

by Gil Scott Heron

Taken from the CD The Revolution Will Not Be Televised (Plus)

Label: Ace Records

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To Whom It May Concern

by Adrian Mitchell

From Come on Everybody; Poems 1953 – 2008

Published by Bloodaxe

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Echo

by Raymond Antrobus

Taken from The Perseverance

Published by Penned In the Margins

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Famous Blue Raincoat

by Leonard Cohen

Taken from the CD Closing Time

Label: Sony

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Everything You Have Ever Lost

by Joelle Taylor

Taken from Songs My Enemy Taught Me

Published by Out Spoken Press

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Resume

by Dorothy Parker

From The Collected Dorothy Parker

Published by Penguin

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Broadcasts

  • Sun 17 Mar 2019 16:30
  • Sat 23 Mar 2019 23:30