Fleur Adcock
The guest curator is Fleur Adcock, and her choices include To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence by James Elroy Flecker, Old Man by Edward Thomas and Fleur鈥檚 own poem A Visiting Angel. Fleur brings along a sprig of something from her garden for Roger. Producer Sally Heaven.
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A Visiting Angel
By Fleur Adcock
Taken from 鈥淧oems 1960 - 2000鈥�
Published by Bloodaxe
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To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence
By James Elroy Flecker
Taken from 鈥淪elected Poems of James Elroy Flecker鈥�
Published by Rowan Books
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The Deadly Sins and the Holy Virtues 鈥� No 7 鈥� Humility
By Lorraine Mariner
Taken from 鈥淭here Will Be No More Nonsense鈥�
Published by Picador
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Badly Chosen Lover
By Rosemary Tonks
Taken from 鈥淏edouin of the London Evening; Collected Poems鈥�
Published by Bloodaxe
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I Should like to be Buried in a Summer Forest
By Helen Dunmore
Taken from 鈥淐ounting Backwards: Poems 1975 鈥� 2017鈥�
Published by Bloodaxe
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Like Rain
By Emily Dickinson
Taken from 鈥淭he Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson鈥�
Published by Faber and Faber
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Extract from 鈥楶erfume鈥�
By Roger McGough
From 鈥淩oger McGough 鈥� Collected Poems鈥�
Published by Viking / Penguin
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Old Man
By Edward Thomas
Taken from 鈥淓dward Thomas 鈥� Collected Poems鈥�
Published by Faber and Faber
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The Highwayman
By Alfred Noyes
Taken from 鈥淭he Highwayman鈥�
Published by OUP Oxford
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- Sun 19 May 2019 16:30鲍鱼tv Radio 4 FM
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