by BBC Radio 4 (Author)
An illustrated edition of the bestselling collection of poems taken from the popular Radio 4 programme.
Alongside such familiar favourites as Edward Thomas's 'Adlestrop', John Masefield's 'Sea-Fever', Thomas Gray's 'Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard' and Stevie Smith's 'Not Waving But Drowning', here are Jenny Joseph threatening to be a disreputable old lady, Patrick Chalmers on the wisdom of the fairground, V.L. Edminson on a good cure for bad temper and F.W. Harvey celebrating the comical duck. Heroism, the seasons, birth, death, work and eccentric characters: these are poems for every mood and taste, from the whole range of verse in English
Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
Publisher: Orion
Published: 21 Nov 2002
ISBN 10: 075285786X
ISBN 13: 9780752857862
Book Overview: An illustrated edition of the bestselling collection of poems taken from the popular Radio 4 programme.