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Poetry Please

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As part of the Poetry Library's 50th anniversary celebrations, Roger McGough visits its home at the Royal Festival Hall, London, and takes requests for poems. He also reveals the results of a poll conducted by the Poetry Library and the Poetry Book Society indicating the favourite poems and poets of the last half century, among them works by Derek Mahon , Carol Ann Duffy , Stevie Smith and others. Repeated from Sunday

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Roger McGough
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Derek Mahon
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Carol Ann Duffy
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Stevie Smith
Source: Radio Times

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