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Abse, Dannie: Mysteries
Adcock, Fleur: Immigrant
Agabi, Patience: The London Eye
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
Alberti, Rafael tr. Strand, Mark: The Waves
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: My Father
Amichai, Yehuda : The place where we are right
Anon: Cries of London
Anon: I have a gentil cock
Anon: London Bells
Anon: The Silver Swan
Anon: Westron Wynde
Anon tr. Flann O Brien: Season Song
Anyte of Tegea tr.Peter Constantine: This Place is Aphrodite’s
Apollinaire, Guillaume tr. the Editors: La Petite Auto / The Little Car
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
The Bible: From The Song of Solomon
Bishop, Elizabeth: Close close all night
Blake, William : Ah! Sun-Flower
Blake, William: from Auguries of Innocence
Blake, William: From Jerusalem
Blake, William: Infant Joy
Boland, Eavan: The Emigrant Irish
Boland, Eavan: Legends
Bosquet, tr. Beckett, Samuel : Fresh Sighs for Sale
Brathwaite, Kamau: Mmenson
Brathwaite, Kamau: Naima
Breeze,Jean Binta: dreamer
Breeze,Jean Binta: Moonwise
Breeze,Jean Binta: rising
Breyner, Sophia de Mello: 25th April 1974
Breyner, Sophia de Mello: In the Poem
Broomfield, Matt: Playtime
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett: Sonnet from the Portuguese
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
Byron, Lord: from Don Juan
Carson, Ciaron: Fear
Cassels, Imogen : Boy
Carroll, Lewis: Father William
Causley, Charles: Armistice Day
Causley, Charles: I am the Song
Cavafy, C.P. tr. Dalvin, Rae: Ionian Song
Chalar, Laura Tr. Mena, Erica Cordón from ‘Montevideo’,
Chang Chi : Maple Bridge Night Mooring
Charles, Faustin Viv
Chernaik, Judith : Tortoise
Clarke, Gillian; Ode to Joy
Clarke, Gillian: Six Bells
Collins, Merle: Free
Constantine, David : Peace (after Goethe)
Constantine,Peter tr., Anyte of Tegea : This Place is Aphrodite’s
Cope, Wendy: After the Lunch
Cornford, Frances: All Souls’ Night
Cornford, Frances: Parting in Wartime
Crabbe, George: from The Borough
Crichton Smith, Iain: The Exiles
Dawes, Kwame: Dew
Darwish, Mahmoud : Green the land of my poem
de la Mare, Walter; Alas, alack!
De Luca, Christine: At Sixty
De Sousa, Eunice: Pilgrim
Dharkar, Imtiaz: Carving
Dickinson, Emily: I Stepped from Plank to Plank
Dickinson, Emily: Much Madness is Divinest Sense
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
Enzensberger, Hans Magnus: Optimistic Little Poem
Ewart, Gavin: A 14-Year-Old Convalescent Cat in the Winter
Farley, Paul: For the House Sparrow, In Decline
Fiedorczuk , Julia tr. Johnston, Bill : Wish You Were Here
Fried, Erich tr. Hood, Stuart: A Collector
Fujiwara no Toshinari : Cuckoo
Fuller, John: Concerto for Double Bass
Gatsos, Nikos: from Amorgos
Goodison, Lorna : Bam Chi Chi La La: London, 1969
Goodison, Lorna: I am becoming my mother
Graves, Robert : Love Without Hope
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
Gurney, Ivor: Bach and the Sentry
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: Had I not been awake
Heaney, Seamus: The Railway Children
Hegley, John Thankyou London Underground
Herbert, Cicely tr. Sappho : As a gale on the mountainside
Herbert, Cicely: Everything Changes
Herbert, Zbigniew: Nothing Special
Herrick, Robert: Dreams
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
Hopkins, Gerald Manley: Spring and Fall
Hopkins, Gerald Manley: The Windhover
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: Endymion
Keats, John: Lines from Endymion
Keats, John: Ode to a Nightingale
Keats, John: On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
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
Levertov, Denise: Living
Levi, Primo tr. Chiavetta, Eleonora: 25 February 1944
Lewis, Gwyneth: Small Brown Job
Lister, R. P.: Buses on the Strand
Lochead, Liz: Riddle-Me-Ree
Longley, Michael: Harmonica
Longley, Michael: The Sonnets
Lorca, Frederico Garcia: Peaceful waters: Variation
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
Michaelis, Hanny tr. de Jager, Marolijn: Somewhere in the House
Millay, Edna St Vincent What Lips my Lips Have Kissed
Milligan, Spike: Teeth
Milner, Ian, tr. Holub: In the microscope
Milosz, Czeslaw: Blacksmith Shop
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
Nagra, Daljit : Our Town with the Whole of India
Naomi, Katrina: Diary
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
Pilkington, Laetitia: A Song
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
Quasimodo, Salvatore Tr.Bevan, Jack : And suddenly it’s Evening
Raine, Kathleen: Heroes
Raine, Kathleen: Maire Macrae’s Song
Revard, Carter: Birch Canoe
Riviere, Sam: Cuts
Rhys, Ernest : Lost in France
Rich, Adrienne Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers
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
Sappho, Two Fragments
Sassoon, Siegfried: Everyone Sang
Sassoon, Siegfried: The General
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: Ariel’s Song
Shakespeare, William: Caliban (from The Tempest)
Shakespeare, William: Fear no more the heat o’ the sun
Shakespeare, William: Feste’s song
Shakespeare, William: From King Lear
Shakespeare, William: Prospero’s Farewell
Shakespeare, William: Puck to Oberon
Shakespeare, William: Sonnet 18
Shakespeare, William: Sonnet 29
Shakespeare, William: Sonnet 98
Shakespeare, William: Sonnet 116
Shakespeare, William: Under the greenwood tree
Shapcott, Jo: Gherkin Music
Shapcott, Jo: I go inside the tree
Sheers, Owen: Skirrid Fawr
Sheers, Owen: Swallows
Shelley, P.B.: Adonais
Shelley, P.B.: Ozymandias
Shelley, P. B.: The World’s Great Age Begins Anew
Shelley, P. B.: To-
Shelley, P.B.: With a Guitar To Jane
Sidney, Sir Philip: My true love hath my heart and I have his
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
Snyder, Gary: At Maple Bridge
Sorescu, Marin translated by D.J. Enright: Perseverance
Soyinka, Wole: Season
Soyinka, Wole: To My First White Hairs
Spaziani, Maria Luisa tr. Allen, Beverly : The Aegean
Spencer, Kyle : Astral Enlightenment
Stenberg, Eira tr. Lomas, Herbert: Almost Without Noticing
Stevenson, Anne: It looks so simple from a distance
Stevenson, Anne: Lesson
Stevenson, Anne : Ragwort
Stephenson–Wright, Sophie: Whalesong
Szabo, Anna T. : from Labour Ward
Szirtes, George: A Trojan Horse in Trafalgar Square
Tennyson, Lord Alfred: from In Memoriam
Thomas, Dylan From Fern Hill
Thomas, Edward : In Memoriam (Easter 1915)
Thomas, Edward : Thaw
Thompson, Francis: At Lord’s
Towers, Katherine: The Way We Go
Trakl, Georg tr. Constantine, David: Im Osten / In the East
Tranströmer, Tomas tr. Deane, John F. : From March ’79
Ungaretti , Giuseppe tr. Creagh, Patrick: Fratelli / Brothers
Waterman, Andrew: Our Meetings
Whitman, Walt: Reconciliation
Whitman, Walt: What Am I After All
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
Wordsworth, William: The Rainbow Comes and Goes
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
Yeats, W. B: When You Are Old
Young, Andrew: A Prehistoric camp
Zagajewski, Adam: Star