Poetry Please! Anniversary Edition

Various

ISBN 10: 0563523263 ISBN 13: 9780563523260

Publisher: BBC Audiobooks, 2004

Synopsis

This special edition celebrating the 25th anniversary of BBC Radio 4’s hugely successful programme, ‘Poetry Please’, features many of the most popular poems that are most frequently requested by listeners. It includes Thomas Hardy’s ‘The Ruined Maid’, readings of Shakespeare’s Sonnets by Samuel West, and the late Charles Causley reading his moving poem about his parents’ death, ‘Eden Rock’. Other old favourites such as Yeats, Larkin and Kipling also feature, as do contemporary poets including Adrian Henry, Simon Armitage and Wendy Cope. Roger McGough, one of the most popular and acclaimed of all modern British poets, presents the compilation, bringing to it his own experience of the poetry scene and his inimitable, wry sense of humour.

About this title

Product Description:

Including Thomas Hardy's 'The Ruined Maid', readings of Shakespeare's 'Sonnets' by Samuel West, and the late Charles Causley reading his moving poem about his parents' death, 'Eden Rock', this edition features many popular poems. Yeats, Larkin, and Kipling also feature, as do poets including Adrian Henry, Simon Armitage, and Wendy Cope.

Book Description:

This special edition celebrating the 25th anniversary of BBC Radio 4’s hugely successful programme, ‘Poetry Please’, features many of the most popular poems that are most frequently requested by listeners.

About this edition

• Publisher: BBC Audiobooks
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0563523263
• ISBN 13: 9780563523260
• Binding: Audio CD
• Number of pages: 1