Poetry Please! (Favourite Poems From The BBC Radio 4 Programme)

by Charles Causley (Introduction)

• Used

  Paperback
  

  $3.36

• Used

  Paperback
  2002

  $3.36

  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