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Poetry Please: Canals, rivers, boats and lakes

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13/10/2013

Canals, rivers, boats and lakes

BBC Radio 4 - Poetry Please, Canals, rivers, boats and lakes

Roger McGough presents a selection of poems on a watery theme.

Roger McGough presents a selection of poems on a watery theme, recorded at the Birmingham Literature Festival.

This year National Poetry Day has taken the theme of water and Poetry Please has thrown off its clothes and jumped in with a selection of poems about lakes, rivers, boats and canals. All recorded live at the Birmingham literature festival in the new Library of Birmingham, amidst the many waterways of the venice of the Midlands.

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