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Agard, John Chilling Out Beside the Thames
Agard, John: Toussaint L’Ouverture Acknowledges Wordsworth’s Sonnet ‘To Toussaint L’Ouverture’
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”
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
Berry, James: A dream of leavin
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: Legends
Breeze,Jean Binta: dreamer
Browning, Robert: Meeting at Night
Burns, Robert: A Red, Red Rose
Burns, Robert: John Anderson my Jo
Burns, Robert: Up in the Morning Early
Carson, Ciaron: Fear
Chalar, Laura Tr. Mena, Erica Cordón from ‘Montevideo’,
Charles, Faustin Viv
Clarke, Gillian; Ode to Joy
Constantine,Peter tr., Anyte of Tegea : This Place is Aphrodite’s
Cope, Wendy: After the Lunch
Cornford, Frances: Parting in Wartime
Dawes, Kwame: Dew
De Sousa, Eunice: Pilgrim
Darwish, Mahmoud : Green the land of my poem
Dharkar, Imtiaz: Carving
Dickinson, Emily: Wild Nights
Donaghy, Michael: The Present
Draycott, Jane: India
Duffy, Carol Ann: Prayer
Elfyn, Menna: Brooch
Goodison, Lorna : Bam Chi Chi La La: London, 1969
Goodison, Lorna: I am becoming my mother
Graves, Robert : She Tells Her Love
Gregory, Lady Augusta translated from the Irish of Antione O’ Raifteiri:I am Raftery the Poet
Grunewald, Hattie: First Contact
Hardy, Thomas: Proud Songsters
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
Hopkins,Gerald Manley: Repeat that, Repeat
Housman, A. E: For the War Dead
Jennings, Elizabeth: Delay
Kay, Jackie: Promise
Keats, John: When I have fears that I may cease to be
Kramer, Lotte: Boy with Orange (out of Kosovo)
Kolatkar, Arun; The Butterfly
Lau, Leon Yuchin: If a boy must wonder
Lawrence, D.H.: Piano
Lister, R. P.: Buses on the Strand
Longley, Michael: Harmonica
Lowe, Hannah: Love
MacColl, Ewan: Sweet Thames flow softly
MacNeice, Louis: ‘What is truth?’
tr. Maguire, Sarah and Yari, Yama, Naderi, Partaw : My Voice
McKendrick, Jamie: Out There
Meehan, Paula: Not Weeding
Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna: Approaching Fifty
Milner, Ian, tr. Holub: In the microscope
Mtshali, Oswald Mbuyiseni: Inside My Zulu Hut
Moore, Thomas: Go where we May
Morley, David: Fulcrum/Writing a World
Muldoon, Paul : An Old Pit Pony
Msham, Mwana Kupona binti : from Poem to Her Daughter
Naderi, Partaw , tr. Sarah Maguire and Yama Yari: My Voice
Nash, Miriam: Prayer for my Father as Child
Nichols, Grace: Epilogue
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
Parkes, Nii Ayikwei: Barter
Parkes, Nii Ayikwei: Tin Roof
Pasternak, Boris: Hops
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: Maire Macrae’s Song
Revard, Carter: Birch Canoe
Rosen, Michael: London Fields
Robinson, Roger : And if I speak of Paradise
Rosenberg, Isaac: On Receiving News of the War
Salkey, Andrew: History and Away
Sappho, tr. Cicely Herbert: As a gale on the mountainside
Sassoon, Siegfried: Everyone Sang
Seifert, Jaroslav: And now goodbye
Senghor, Léopold Sédar, tr. Gerard Benson : Et nous baignerons mon amie
Shakespeare, William: Caliban (from The Tempest)
Shakespeare, William: Fear no more the heat o’ the sun
Shakespeare, William: Feste’s song
Shakespeare, William: Sonnet 18
Shakespeare, William: Sonnet 98
Shapcott, Jo: Gherkin Music
Shelley, P.B.: Ozymandias
Sorescu, Marin translated by D.J. Enright: Perseverance
Soyinka, Wole: Season
Stevenson, Anne: It looks so simple from a distance
Stevenson, Anne: Lesson
Stephenson–Wright, Sophie: Whalesong
Szirtes, George: A Trojan Horse in Trafalgar Square
Tennyson, Lord Alfred: from In Memoriam
Thompson, Francis: At Lord’s
Waterman, Andrew: Our Meetings
Williams, William Carlos: This Is Just to Say
Woolf, Karen McCarthy: On the Thames
Wordsworth, William: Composed upon Westminster Bridge
Wright, Kit: Honesty
Wyatt, Sir Thomas: They Flee from me
tr. Yari, Yama and Maguire, Sarah , Naderi, Partaw : My Voice
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