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.
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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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