Poetry Please! 100 Popular Poems from the BBC Radio 4 Programme

by Charles Causley (Foreword), Meilo So (Illustrator), Charles Causley (Foreword), Meilo So (Illustrator)

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  Paperback
  1999

  $3.29

  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

• Used

  Paperback
  2002

  $3.29

  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

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  Paperback
  1996

  $8.58

  A selection of poems from the successful Radio 4 series, including Auden, Betjeman, Hopkins and MacNeice, with an introduction by Charles Causley.