Frank Skinner
Roger McGough returns with a new series of Poetry Please. 1/4 Writer and comedian Frank Skinner makes his selection from listeners' poetry requests
Roger McGough returns with a new series of Poetry Please, sharing listener requests and recommendations for poems they'd like to hear. His first guest is the writer and comedian Frank Skinner. A huge lover of and champion for poetry, Frank's choices from the Poetry Please post bag include poems by Liz Berry, John Betjeman, Jean Sprackland, Jen Hadfield and W.H. Auden.
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Connemara
By Liz Berry 听听听听听听听
From The Republic of Motherhood听听听听听听听听听听
Published by Chatto & Windus
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Dolmen
By Jen Hadfield 听听听听听
From The Stone Age听听听听听听
Published by Picador
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Note from the Outside听听
By Jean Sprackland听听听听听听听听听
From Hard Water听听听听听听听听听听听听
Published by Jonathan Cape
Archive courtesy of The Poetry Archive
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Vinegar
By Roger McGough
From Selected Poems 1967-1987听听听听听听听听听听听听听
Published by Jonathan Cape
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Prayer at the Gate听听听听听听听听听听
By PJ Harvey听听听听听听
From Orlam听听听听听听听
Published by Picador
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Extract from Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot听听听听听听听听
By Alexander Pope
From Alexander Pope - The Major Works
Published by OUP
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Night Mail听听
By WH Auden听听听听
From The Collected Shorter Poems
Published by Faber and Faber
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A Subaltern鈥檚 Love Song
By John Betjeman 听听听听听听听听听听
From Collected Poems听听听
Published by John Murray
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