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Abse, Dannie: Mysteries
Adcock, Fleur: Immigrant
Agbabi, 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
Akhmatova, Anna: from Requiem
Alberti, Rafael tr. Strand, Mark: The Waves
Ali, Agha Shahid: Stationery
Alvi, Moniza : Arrival 1946
Alvi, Moniza: Indian Cooking
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
Angelou, Maya: Come. And be my baby
Anon: Cries of London
Anon: I gave my love a cherry
Anon: I have a gentil cock
Anon: I saw a Peacock with a fiery tail
Anon: I shall say what inordinate love is
Anon: London Bells
Anon tr. Gerard Benson: Old English Riddle
Anon: Sumer is icumen in
Anon tr. Gerard Benson: The Coming of Grendel from Beowulf
Anon: The Silver Swan
Anon: Western Wind 1986 poster
Anon: Western Wind 1993 poster
Anon: Westron Wynde
Anon tr. Flann O Brien: Season Song
Anyte of Tegea tr.Peter Constantine: from The Greek Anthology
Anyte of Tegea tr.Peter Constantine: This Place is Aphrodite’s
Apollinaire, Guillaume tr. the Editors: La Petite Auto / The Little Car
Apollinaire, Guillaume Tr. Bernard, Oliver : Letter to Andre Billy. 9 April 1915
Arnold, Matthew: from Dover Beach
Arshi, Mona: This Morning
Auden,W.H. : Funeral Blues
Auden, W.H. : Song
Barker, Sebastian: In the Heart of Hackney
Basho, Matsuo: Autumn Evening
Bensley, Connie: Stations
Bensley, Connie: Shopper
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 from Set 2 April 1986
Berry, James: Benediction from Set 106 November 2020
Betjeman, John: City
Betjeman, John from Summoned by Bells
Bhatt, Sujata: Finding India in Unexpected Places
Bhatt, Sujata: Love in a Bathtub
Bhatt, Sujata: Today
The Bible: From The Song of Solomon
The Bible, 1 Corinthians: When I was a Child
Bishop, Elizabeth: Close close all night
Bishop, Elizabeth: Song
Blake, William : Ah! Sun-Flower
Blake, William: from Auguries of Innocence
Blake, William: From Jerusalem
Blake, William: Infant Joy
Blake, William: The Sick Rose
Bloom, Valerie: Sun a-shine, rain a-fall
Boland, Eavan: Legends
Boland, Eavan: The Emigrant Irish
Boland, Eavan: This Moment
Borodale, Sean: Hot Bright Visionary Flies
Bosquet, tr. Beckett, Samuel : Fresh Sighs for Sale
Brathwaite, Kamau: Mmenson
Brathwaite, Kamau: Naima
Brathwaite, Kamau: Naima for John Coltrane
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 April 1988 Poster
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett: Sonnet from the Portuguese June 2006 Poster
Browning, Robert: Meeting at Night 1988 Poster
Browning, Robert: Meeting at Night 2019 Poster
Brutus, Dennis: Nightsong : City
Bunting, Basil: Personal Column
Burns, Robert: A Red, Red Rose
Burns, Robert: John Anderson my Jo
Burns, Robert: Up in the Morning Early
Byron, Lord: from Don Juan
Byron, Lord: Sonnet on Chillon
Byron, Lord: So We’ll Go No More A-Roving
Carson, Ciaron: Fear
Cassels, Imogen : Boy
Carroll, Lewis: Father William
Carroll, Lewis: The Lobster Quadrille
Causley, Charles: Armistice Day
Causley, Charles: I am the Song
Causley, Charles: I Saw a Jolly Hunter
Cavafy, C.P. tr. Dalvin, Rae: Ionian Song
Celan, Paul tr. Hamburger, Michael: Thread suns
Chalar, Laura Tr. Mena, Erica Cordón from ‘Montevideo’,
Chang Chi : Maple Bridge Night Mooring
Charles, Faustin Viv 2012 Poster
Chaucer, Geoffrey: Roundel from the Parliament of Fowls
Chernaik, Judith : Tortoise
Chuilleanáin: Eiléan Ní, Swineherd
Clark-Bekederemo, J.P. : Ibadan
Clarke, Gillian; Ode to Joy
Clarke, Gillian: Six Bells
Clarke, Gillian: Taid’s Grave
Collins, Merle: Free
Constantine, David : Peace (after Goethe)
Constantine,Peter tr., Anyte of Tegea : This Place is Aphrodite’s
Cope, Wendy: After the Lunch
Cope, Wendy: The Uncertainty of the Poet
Cornford, Frances: All Souls’ Night
Cornford, Frances: Parting in Wartime
Crabbe, George: from The Borough
Crichton Smith, Iain: The Exiles
D’Aguiar, Fred: Mama Dot
Dawes, Kwame: Dew
Darwish, Mahmoud : Green the land of my poem
de la Mare, Walter: Alas, alack!
de la Mare, Walter: Silver
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: There Came a Wind Like a Bugle
Dickinson, Emily: Wild Nights
Donaghy, Michael: The Present
Donne, John: Holy Sonnet
Donne, John: No Man is an Island
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 1999 poster
Duffy, Carol Ann: Prayer 2009 poster
Duffy, Carol Ann: Words, Wide Night
Dunbar, William: from to the City of London
Dunmore, Helen : The Shaft
Dunn, Stephen: Happiness
Elfyn, Menna: Brooch
Eliot, T.S. : Prelude I
Enzensberger, Hans Magnus: Optimistic Little Poem
Ewart, Gavin: A 14-Year-Old Convalescent Cat in the Winter
Fainlight, Ruth: Handbag
Farley, Paul: For the House Sparrow, In Decline
Fiedorczuk , Julia tr. Johnston, Bill : Wish You Were Here
Finch, Anne, Trail All Your Pikes
Forché, Carolyn: The Visitor
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 1987 Poster
Goodison, Lorna, I am becoming my mother 2018 Poster
Goodison, Lorna: I am becoming my mother 2020 Poster
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: In Time of the Breaking of Nations
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 1988 Poster
Herbert, Cicely: Everything Changes 2020 Poster
Herbert, George: Virtue
Herbert, Zbigniew: Nothing Special
Herrick, Robert: Dreams
Herrick, Robert: from His Return to London
Hewitt, Seán: Leaf
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: Inversnaid
Hopkins,Gerald Manley: Repeat that, Repeat
Hopkins, Gerard Manley: Spring and Fall
Hopkins, Gerard Manley: The Windhover
Housman, A. E: For the War Dead
Hughes, Langston: Dream Boogie
Hulme, T. E. : The Embankment
Jaccottet, Philippe Tr. Mahon, Derek: Distances
Jennings, Elizabeth: Delay
Johnson, Linton Kwesi : Beacon of Hope (for John La Rose)
Kaminsky, Ilya: In the Bright Sleeve of the Sky
Karim, Fawzi in a version by Howell, Anthony: Black Ink
Kavanagh, Patrick: Consider the Grass Growing
Kavanagh, Patrick: Memory of my Father
Kay, Jackie: Promise
Kay, Jackie: Promise (2021)
Keats, John: from Endymion
Keats, John: from To Autumn
Keats, John : from To Autumn (2021 )
Keats, John: Lines from Endymion
Keats, John: from 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
Koltz, Anise: The Birds Will Still Sing
Larkin, Philip, Cut Grass
Larkin, Philip: The Trees
Lau, Leon Yuchin: If a boy must wonder
Lawrence, D.H.: Piano 1989 Poster
Lawrence, D.H.: Piano 2010 Poster
Lear, Edward: There was an Old Man of Blackheath
Lear, Edward: There Was an Old Man With A Beard
Levertov, Denise: Living
Levi, Primo tr. Chiavetta, Eleonora: 25 February 1944
Lewis, Gwyneth: Small Brown Job
Lim, Shirley: Modern Secrets
Lister, R. P.: Buses on the Strand
Lochead, Liz: Riddle-Me-Ree
Logue, Christopher : London Airport
Longley, Michael: Harmonica
Longley, Michael: The Sonnets
Lorca, Frederico Garcia: Peaceful waters: Variation
Lovelace, Richard: To Althea from Prison
Lowe, Hannah: Love
MacCaig, Norman: Stars & Planets
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
Mahon, Derek: Dog Days
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
Marvell, Andrew: from The Garden
McGough, Roger: The Leader 1989 poster
McGough, Roger: The Leader 1995 poster
McKendrick, Jamie: Out There
Meehan, Paula: Not Weeding
Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna: Approaching Fifty
Merwin, W.S.: Separation
Mew, Charlotte: Sea Love
Michaelis, Hanny tr. de Jager, Marolijn: Somewhere in the House
Michelangelo, La forza d’un bel viso a che mi sprona?
Millay, Edna St Vincent: First Fig
Millay, Edna St Vincent : What Lips my Lips Have Kissed
Milligan, Spike: Look at all those monkeys
Milligan, Spike: Teeth
Milner, Ian, tr. Holub: In the microscope
Milosz, Czeslaw: Blacksmith Shop
Milton, John: On May Morning
Mitchell, Adrian: Celia Celia
Mitchell, Adrian: Celia Celia and Goodbye
Mitchell, Adrian: Song in Space
Mtshali, Oswald Mbuyiseni: Inside My Zulu Hut
Moore, Marianne: I May, I Might, I Must
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: Late Summer Fires
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: Like a Beacon (1986)
Nichols, Grace: Like a Beacon ( 2013)
Nichols, Grace: Like a Beacon (2016)
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 2007 Poster
Osundare, Niyi : I Sing of Change 2012 Poster
Osundare, Niyi : I Sing of Change 2020 Poster
Owen, Wilfrid : Anthem for Doomed Youth
Owen, Wilfrid : Futility
Palladas tr. Tony Harrison: Loving the rituals
Parkes, Nii Ayikwei: Barter
Parkes, Nii Ayikwei: Tin Roof
Pasternak, Boris: Hops
Paterson, Don: Road
Pessoa, Fernando : Harvestwoman
Petit, Pascale: Her Glasses
Pilkington, Laetitia: A Song
Polley, Jacob: The Gulls
Po Chu-I: The Red Cockatoo
Porter, Peter: Waiting for Rain in Devon
Pound, Ezra, tr.: Blue, blue is the grass
Pugh, Sheenagh: Sometimes
Quasimodo, Salvatore Tr.Bevan, Jack : And suddenly it’s evening bilingual text
Quasimodo, Salvatore Tr.Bevan, Jack : And suddenly it’s Evening bilingual text
Raine, Kathleen: Dream
Raine, Kathleen: Heroes
Raine, Kathleen: Maire Macrae’s Song
Raine, Kathleen: The Very Leaves of the Acacia-tree are London
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: August 1914
Rosenberg, Isaac: On Receiving News of the War
Ryan, Tracy: The Lesson
Salkey, Andrew: A song for England 1991 Poster
Salkey, Andrew: A song for England 2012 Poster
Salkey, Andrew: History and Away
Sappho, tr. Cicely Herbert: As a gale on the mountainside
Sappho, Two Fragments
Sarton, May: A Glass of Water
Sassoon, Siegfried: Everyone Sang 1986 Poster
Sassoon, Siegfried: Everyone Sang 2009 Poster
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 1988 Poster
Shakespeare, William: Ariel’s Song 2016 Poster
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
Shapcott, Jo: Quark
Sheers, Owen: Skirrid Fawr
Sheers, Owen: Swallows
Shelley, P.B.: from Adonais
Shelley, P.B.: Ozymandias, January 1986 poster
Shelley, P.B.: Ozymandias June 2016 poster
Shelley, P. B.: The World’s Great Age Begins Anew
Shelley, P. B.: Music When Soft Voices Die
Shelley, P.B.: With a Guitar To Jane
Sheridan, Thomas :A True and Faithful Inventory of the Goods belonging to Dr Swift
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
Stevens, Wallace: Disillusionment of Ten O’ Clock
Stevenson, Anne: After The Fall
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: Accordionist
Szirtes, George: A Trojan Horse in Trafalgar Square
Tennyson, Lord Alfred: from In Memoriam
Thomas, Dylan: From Fern Hill
Thomas, Dylan: In my Craft or Sullen Art
Thomas, Edward : In Memoriam (Easter 1915)
Thomas, Edward : Thaw
Thomas, R. S.: The Ancients of the World
Tomlinson, Charles: If Bach Had Been a Beekeeper
Thompson, Francis: At Lord’s 1986 poster
Thompson, Francis: At Lord’s 2013 poster
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
Wakoski, Diane: The Hitchhikers
Walcott, Derek: Map of the New World: Archipelagoes
Walcott, Derek: Midsummer, Tobago
Waterman, Andrew: Our Meetings
Whitman, Walt: Reconciliation
Whitman, Walt: What Am I After All
Wilde, Oscar: Symphony in Yellow
Williams, William Carlos: This is Just to Say 1986 Poster
Williams, William Carlos: This is Just to Say 2009 Poster
Williams, William Carlos: This Is Just to Say 2016 Poster
Woolf, Karen McCarthy: On the Thames
Wordsworth, William: Composed upon Westminster Bridge 1986 Poster
Wordsworth, William: Composed upon Westminster Bridge 2009 Poster
Wordsworth, William: Composed upon Westminster Bridge 2013 poster
Wordsworth, William: from The Prelude
Wordsworth, William: The Rainbow Comes and Goes
Wright, Judith: Rainforest
Wright, Kit: Honesty
Wright, Kit: Sergeant Brown’s Parrot
Wyatt, Sir Thomas: Tagus Farewell
Wyatt, Sir Thomas: They Flee from me
tr. Yari, Yama and Maguire, Sarah , Naderi, Partaw : My Voice
Yates, Luke: I think my brain is coming out of my ears
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 1986 poster
Yeats, W.B: Her Anxiety 2009 poster
Yeats, W. B: Vacillation
Yeats, W. B: When You Are Old
Young, Andrew: A Prehistoric camp
Youssef, Saadi tr. Mattawa, Khaled: Poetry
Zagajewski, Adam: Star
Zephaniah, Benjamin: Anti-Slavery Movements