Christmas with Roger Robinson and Liz Lochhead
Roger Robinson and Liz Lochhead join Roger to share favourite seasonal poems, including wintry offerings from Emily Dickinson, Paul Laurence Dunbar and Jacob Polley.
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This Week's Poems
In the Bleak Midwinter
By Christina Rossetti
From Christina Rossetti - Complete Poems
Published by Penguin Classics
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In the Mid Midwinter
by Liz Lochhead
From Fugitive Colours
Published by Polygon
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Before The Ice
By Emily Dickinson
From The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Published by Faber & Faber
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Little Tree
by ee Cummings
From ee cummings – Complete Poems 1904-1962
Published by Liveright
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The Eve of St Agnes
By John Keats
From John Keats: The Complete Poems
Published by Penguin Classics
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The Trouble With Snowmen
By Roger McGough
From All the Best: The Selected Poems of Roger McGough
Published by Puffin
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Snow
by Louis MacNeice
From Collected Poems
Faber & Faber
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It Will Snow Before Long
By Jacob Polley
From The Havocs
Published by Picador
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The New Puppies
By Roger Robinson
From Suitcase
Published by Waterways Press
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The Christmas Basketball Game
By Elontra Hall
Unpublished
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To A Mouse
By Robert Burns
From Robert Burns: Selected Poems
Published by Bloomsbury
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Christmas Carol
By Paul Laurence Dunbar
From The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar
Published by Dodd, Mead and Company, 1922
Music composed by James Walton
Performed by the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Singers
Arrangement by Clare Wheeler
Broadcasts
- Christmas Day 2022 23:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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