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Abse, Dannie: Mysteries

Adcock, Fleur: Immigrant

Agard, John: Chilling Out Beside the Thames

Agard, John: Toussaint L’Ouverture Acknowledges Wordsworth’s Sonnet ‘To Toussaint L’Ouverture’

Ahmed, Safrina: Layers of Kant reveal

Ali, Agha Shahid:  Stationery

Alvi, Moniza:  Indian Cooking

Amichai, Yehuda Tr. Bloch, Chana and Kronfeld, Chana : Ein Yahav from “Israeli Travel: Otherness is All, Otherness is Love”

Amichai, Yehuda : The place where we are right

Anon: I have a gentil cock

Anon: The Silver Swan

Anyte of Tegea tr.Peter Constantine: This Place is Aphrodite’s

Arshi, Mona: This Morning

Auden,W.H. : Funeral Blues

Barker, Sebastian In the Heart of Hackney

Bensley, Connie Stations

Benson, Gerard (tr.) Léopold Sédar Senghor :  Et nous baignerons mon amie

Benson, Gerard: In a Young Time

Benson, Gerard: Riddle

Berry, James:  A dream of leavin

Berry, James: Benediction

Betjeman, John: City

Betjeman, John from Summoned by Bells

Bhatt, Sujata: Finding India in Unexpected Places

Bhatt, Sujata:  Today

Bishop, Elizabeth: Close close all night

Blake, William: from Auguries of Innocence

Blake, William: From Jerusalem

Boland, Eavan: The Emigrant Irish

Boland, Eavan:  Legends

Brathwaite, Kamau: Mmenson

Brathwaite, Kamau: Naima

Breeze,Jean Binta: dreamer

Broomfield, Matt: Playtime

Browning, Robert:  Meeting at Night

Brutus, Dennis: Nightsong : City

Burns, Robert: A Red, Red Rose

Burns, Robert: John Anderson my Jo

Burns, Robert: Up in the Morning Early

Byron, Lord: So We’ll Go No More A-Roving

Carson, Ciaron: Fear

Cassels, Imogen : Boy

Causley, Charles: Armistice Day

Causley, Charles: I am the Song

Chalar, Laura Tr. Mena, Erica  Cordón from ‘Montevideo’,

Charles, Faustin Viv

Chernaik, Judith : Tortoise

Clarke, Gillian; Ode to Joy

Clarke, Gillian: Six Bells

Constantine, David : Peace (after Goethe)

Constantine,Peter tr., Anyte of Tegea : This Place is Aphrodite’s

Cope, Wendy: After the Lunch

Cornford, Frances: Parting in Wartime      

Crabbe, George: from The Borough

Crichton Smith, Iain: The Exiles

Dawes, Kwame:  Dew

De Sousa, Eunice: Pilgrim

Darwish, Mahmoud : Green the land of my poem

de la Mare, Walter; Alas, alack!

Dharkar, Imtiaz: Carving

Dickinson, Emily: My life closed twice before its close

Dickinson, Emily: Wild Nights

Donaghy, Michael: The Present

Donne, John: Holy Sonnet

Dooley, Maura: Still Life with Sea Pinks and High Tide

Dorgan, Theo: Bread Dipped in Olive Oil and Salt

Draycott, Jane:  India

Draycott, Jane:  No.3 from Uses for the Thames

Duffy, Carol Ann: Hour

Duffy, Carol Ann: Passing-Bells

Duffy, Carol Ann: Prayer

Dunmore, Helen : The Shaft

Elfyn, Menna:  Brooch          

Ewart, Gavin: A 14-Year-Old Convalescent Cat in the Winter

Fujiwara no Toshinari : Cuckoo

Fuller, John: Concerto for Double Bass

Goodison, Lorna : Bam Chi Chi La La: London, 1969

Goodison, Lorna: I am becoming my mother                                

Graves, Robert : She Tells Her Love  

Greenlaw, Lavinia: Sisu

Gregory, Lady Augusta  translated from the Irish of Antione O’ Raifteiri:I am Raftery the Poet

Grunewald, Hattie: First Contact

Gunn, Thom : The Conversation of Old Men

Hardy, Thomas: Lines to a Movement in Mozart’s E-flat Symphony

Hardy, Thomas: Proud Songsters

Harray, Laura: Circulation

Harrison, Tony: The Morning After (August 1945)

Heaney, Seamus: Colmcille the Scribe

Heaney, Seamus: The Railway Children

Hegley, John Thankyou London Underground

Herbert, Cicely tr. Sappho : As a gale on the mountainside

Herbert, Cicely: Everything Changes

Hikmet, Nazim: Baku at Night

Holub, Miroslav: In the microscope

Hope, A.D. : Inscription for a War

Hope, Danielle:  The Thunderbolt’s Training Manual

Hopkins,Gerald Manley: Repeat that, Repeat

Housman, A. E: For the War Dead

Isaiah 2.4: And they shall beate their swords into plow-shares

Jennings, Elizabeth: Delay

Kavanagh, Patrick: Memory of my Father

Kay, Jackie: Promise

Keats, John: Lines from Endymion

Keats, John: When I have fears that I may cease to be

Kennedy, X J: To Someone Who Insisted I Look Up Someone

Kessler, Milton: Thanks Forever

Khalvati, Mimi: Apology

King, Henry: Sic Vita

Kipling, Rudyard: A Dead Statesman

Kramer, Lotte: Boy with Orange (out of Kosovo)

Kolatkar, Arun; The Butterfly

Lau, Leon Yuchin: If a boy must wonder

Lawrence, D.H.: Piano

Lear, Edward: There was an Old Man of Blackheath

Lewis, Gwyneth: Small Brown Job

Lister, R. P.: Buses on the Strand

Longley, Michael: Harmonica

Lowe, Hannah: Love

MacColl, Ewan: Sweet Thames flow softly  

MacNeice, Louis:  from Autumn Journal

MacNeice, Louis:  ‘What is truth?’ 

tr. Maguire, Sarah and Yari, Yama, Naderi, Partaw : My Voice

Makoha, Nick: BOM Mumbai Airport

Mandelstam, Osip: You took away all the oceans and all the room

Mapanje, Jack: The Palm Trees at Chigawe

Markham, E.A.: The Thing Not Said

McKendrick, Jamie: Out There

Meehan, Paula: Not Weeding

Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna: Approaching Fifty

Merwin, W.S.: Separation

Milligan, Spike: Teeth

Milner, Ian, tr. Holub: In the microscope

Mitchell, Adrian: Celia Celia and Goodbye

Mitchell, Adrian: Song in Space

Mtshali, Oswald Mbuyiseni:  Inside My Zulu Hut

Moore, Thomas: Go where we May

Morgan, Edwin: The Loch Ness Monster’s Song

Morley, David: Fulcrum/Writing a World

Morrissey, Sinéad: Grasmere Journal, 1801

Msham, Mwana Kupona binti : from Poem to Her Daughter

Muldoon, Paul : An Old Pit Pony

Murray, Les: The Meaning of Existence

Naderi, Partaw , tr. Sarah Maguire and Yama Yari: My Voice

Nagra, Daljit : Look there he goes even now, my father

Nash, Miriam: Prayer for my Father as Child

Nichols, Grace:  Epilogue

Nichols, Grace:  For the Life of This Planet

Nichols, Grace: Moment in a Peace March

O’Brien, Sean : The River Road

O’Connor, Brian: Spooner Goes Under

O’Donohue, John: Time to be slow

O’Sullivan, Leanne: Note

Osundare, Niyi ; I Sing of Change

Owen, Wilfrid : Futility

Palladas tr. Tony Harrison: Loving the rituals

Parkes, Nii Ayikwei:  Barter

Parkes, Nii Ayikwei: Tin Roof

Pasternak, Boris:  Hops

Pessoa, Fernando : Harvestwoman

Polley, Jacob: The Gulls

Po Chu-I: The Red Cockatoo

Pound, Ezra, tr.:  Blue, blue is the grass

Pugh, Sheenagh:  Sometimes

Quasimodo, Salvatore Tr.Bevan, Jack : And suddenly it’s evening

Raine, Kathleen: Heroes

Raine, Kathleen: Maire Macrae’s Song

Revard, Carter: Birch Canoe    

Rhys, Ernest : Lost in France

Roethke, Theodore: The Sloth

Rosen, Michael: London Fields

Robinson, Roger : And if I speak of Paradise

Rosenberg, Isaac: On Receiving News of the War        

Salkey, Andrew: A song for England

Salkey, Andrew: History and Away

Sappho, tr. Cicely Herbert: As a gale on the mountainside

Sassoon, Siegfried: Everyone Sang

Satyamurti, Carole: Day Trip

Satyamurti, Carole : Ourstory

Seifert, Jaroslav: And now goodbye  

Senghor, Léopold Sédar, tr. Gerard Benson :  Et nous baignerons mon amie

Senior, Olive: Guinep

Shakespeare, William: Caliban (from The Tempest)

Shakespeare, William: Fear no more the heat o’ the sun

Shakespeare, William:  Feste’s song

Shakespeare, William: Prospero’s Farewell

Shakespeare, William: Sonnet 18

Shakespeare, William: Sonnet 98

Shakespeare, William: Under the greenwood tree

Shapcott, Jo: Gherkin Music

Shelley, P.B.: Ozymandias

Shelley, P. B.: The World’s Great Age Begins Anew

Šimkus, Antanas: A Date on Sunday

Smart, Elizabeth : A Musical Note

Smith, Ken: Encounter at St. Martins

Smith, Ken: The bee dance

Smith, Stevie: Lady ‘Rogue’ Singleton

Sorescu, Marin  translated by D.J. Enright: Perseverance

Soyinka, Wole: Season

Spencer, Kyle : Astral Enlightenment

Stevenson, Anne: It looks so simple from a distance

Stevenson, Anne: Lesson

Stevenson, Anne : Ragwort

Stephenson–Wright, Sophie: Whalesong

Szirtes, George: A Trojan Horse in Trafalgar Square

Tennyson, Lord Alfred: from In Memoriam

Thomas, Dylan From Fern Hill

Thomas, Edward : Thaw

Thompson, Francis: At Lord’s

Towers, Katherine: The Way We Go

Waterman, Andrew: Our Meetings

Whitman, Walt: Reconciliation

Williams, William Carlos: This Is Just to Say

Woolf, Karen McCarthy: On the Thames

Wordsworth, William: Composed upon Westminster Bridge

Wordsworth, William: from The Prelude

Wright, Judith: Rainforest

Wright, Kit: Honesty

Wyatt, Sir Thomas: They Flee from me

tr. Yari, Yama and Maguire, Sarah , Naderi, Partaw : My Voice

Yeats, W.B: An Irish Airman foresees his Death

Yeats, W.B: He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven

Yeats, W.B: from Sailing to Byzantium

Yeats, W.B: Her Anxiety

Yeats, W. B: Vacillation

Young, Andrew: A Prehistoric camp