Poetry Please

BBC Radio 4's Poetry Please is the longest-running broadcast of verse anywhere in the world. First aired in 1979, the programme, a request show which broadcasts to two million listeners a week, has become a unique record of the country's best-loved poems over the decades since its inception. The BBC has looked back through its rich archive of recordings to produce a poll of the most asked for and most broadcast pieces ever: it is those poems that this anthology brings together here. A showcase, in effect, for the nation's favourite verse, Poetry Please is a treasure trove for our most requested and most listened to poems of all time. It is a compelling invitation for readers of all ages and backgrounds to celebrate the verse that we care so much about: from new readers to old, from schools to reading groups, this a book for giving, a book for cherishing.

Product details

• Authors: Roger Mcgouch, Roger McGough, Various Poets, Poets Various
• Assisted by: Roger McGough (Editor), Roger McGough (Foreword)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 18.09.2014
• EAN: 9780571303298
• ISBN: 978-0-571-30329-8
• No. of pages: 618
• Dimensions: 125 mm x 198 mm x 40 mm
• Series: Poetry Please; Poetry Please
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Gedichte, Reime (dt.) div., POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors), Poetry anthologies (various poets)