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Poetry Please (The Anniversary Edition)

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Tracklist

70 tracks
  1. 1-1
    I Remember, I Remember
    Thomas Hood
    1:49
  2. 1-2
    Song For A September Birth
    Lotte Kramer
    0:58
  3. 1-3
    On My First Son
    Ben Jonson
    0:52
  4. 1-4
    Prayer For My Daughter
    W.B. Yeats
    4:41
  5. 1-5
    A Message To My Grandson
    Michael Thwaites
    2:05
  6. 1-6
    Adoption
    Wincey Willis
    2:00
  7. 1-7
    Poem For An Adopted Child
    Anon
    0:20
  8. 1-8
    Piano
    D. H. Lawrence
    1:36
  9. 1-9
    Disobedience
    A. A. Milne
    1:48
  10. 1-10
    Brendan Gallacher
    Jackie Kay
    1:32
  11. 1-11
    Childhood
    Frances Cornford
    0:38
  12. 1-12
    Hide And Seek
    Vernon Scannell
    2:34
  13. 1-13
    Back In The Playground Rules
    Adrian Mitchell
    1:52
  14. 1-14
    A Puppy Called Puberty
    Adrian Mitchell
    1:09
  15. 1-15
    Walking Away
    C. Day Lewis
    1:25
  16. 1-16
    Underage Drinking At The Adelphi Hotel
    John Whitworth
    0:59
  17. 1-17
    She Pops Home
    Cal Clothier
    0:55
  18. 1-18
    The Carpenter's Son
    A.E. Housman
    1:32
  19. 1-19
    Into My Heart An Air That Kills
    A.E. Housman
    0:38
  20. 1-20
    The Road Not Taken
    Robert Frost
    1:29
  21. 1-21
    The Way Through The Woods
    Rudyard Kipling
    1:14
  22. 1-22
    The Ruined Maid
    Thomas Hardy
    2:28
  23. 1-23
    When I Set Out For Lyonesse
    Thomas Hardy
    0:51
  24. 1-24
    RIP
    Alan Garner
    1:35
  25. 1-25
    Donal Og
    Anon
    2:12
  26. 1-26
    Somewhere Along The Line
    Simon Armitage
    0:43
  27. 1-27
    Night Shift
    Simon Armitage
    0:54
  28. 1-28
    If I Could Tell You
    W. H. Auden
    1:15
  29. 1-29
    She Walks In Beauty
    Lord Byron
    0:56
  30. 1-30
    The Good Morrow
    John Donne
    1:26
  31. 1-31
    I Like My Body When It Is With Your
    E. E. Cummings
    1:13
  32. 1-32
    He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven
    W.B. Yeats
    0:38
  33. 1-33
    Lullaby
    W. H. Auden
    2:05
  34. 1-34
    Snap
    Jackie Kay
    0:39
  35. 2-1
    Being A Wife
    Selima Hill
    1:48
  36. 2-2
    Woman Ironing
    U. A. Fanthorpe
    1:26
  37. 2-3
    Spring Cleaning
    Jean 'Binta' Breeze
    1:45
  38. 2-4
    Woman Seated In The Underground 1941
    Carol Ann Duffy
    1:38
  39. 2-5
    In Westminster Abbey
    John Betjeman
    2:01
  40. 2-6
    The Queen Of Sheba
    Kathleen Jamie
    3:12
  41. 2-7
    Executive
    John Betjeman
    1:46
  42. 2-8
    Sonnet For The Class Of '58
    James Simmons
    0:53
  43. 2-9
    The Roman Centurion's Song
    Rudyard Kipling
    2:56
  44. 2-10
    The Planster's Vision
    John Betjeman
    0:56
  45. 2-11
    The Land
    Rudyard Kipling
    5:10
  46. 2-12
    Why Brownies Left
    Paul Muldoon
    0:57
  47. 2-13
    In An Artist's Studio
    Christina Rossetti
    1:32
  48. 2-14
    First Meeting
    A.S.J. Tessimond
    0:59
  49. 2-15
    Sonnet 2
    William Shakespeare
    1:03
  50. 2-16
    My Rival
    Rudyard Kipling
    2:08
  51. 2-17
    I Said I Splendidly Loved You
    Rupert Brooke
    1:18
  52. 2-18
    Another Unfortunate Choice
    Wendy Cope
    0:20
  53. 2-19
    Rondeau Redoublé
    Wendy Cope
    1:24
  54. 2-20
    Loving Unsuitable People
    Gavin Ewart
    1:22
  55. 2-21
    Only Until...
    Edna St Vincent Millay
    1:05
  56. 2-22
    In A Bath Teashop
    John Betjeman
    0:28
  57. 2-23
    The Old Books
    Vernon Scannell
    1:57
  58. 2-24
    Go The Long Way, The Long Way Home
    Sylvia Townsend Warner
    3:07
  59. 2-25
    Gloriana Dying
    Sylvia Townsend Warner
    3:17
  60. 2-26
    Gravy
    Raymond Carver
    0:55
  61. 2-27
    Widow In Red Shoes
    Tess Gallagher
    1:20
  62. 2-28
    The Seven Ages Of Man
    William Shakespeare
    2:12
  63. 2-29
    Death, Be Not Proud
    John Donne
    1:19
  64. 2-30
    Dirge From Cymbeline
    William Shakespeare
    2:29
  65. 2-31
    Uphill
    Christina Rossetti
    0:59
  66. 2-32
    Remember
    Christina Rossetti
    1:03
  67. 2-33
    Break, Break, Break
    Alfred, Lord Tennyson
    0:52
  68. 2-34
    In The Attic
    Andrew Motion
    0:45
  69. 2-35
    Funeral Blues
    W. H. Auden
    1:16
  70. 2-36
    So Many Different Lengths Of Time
    Brian Patten
    1:46
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