Elegy / by Chidiock Tichborne / David McVicar -- Sonnet XXX / by William Shakespeare / Melvyn Bragg -- On my first son / by Ben Jonson / John Carey -- Amor constante más allá de la muerte / by Francisco de Quevedo / Ariel Dorfman and Javier Marías -- Hokku / by Fukuda Chiyo-ni / Boris Akunin -- Wandrers Nachtlied II / by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / John Le Carré -- Frost at midnight / by Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Sebastian Faulks -- Character of the happy warrior / by William Wordsworth / Harold Evans -- Surprised by joy / by William Wordsworth / Howard Jacobson -- Last sonnet / by John Keats / Kenneth Lonergan -- The Masque of Anarchy / by Percy Bysshe Shelley / David Edgar -- I Am / by John Clare / Ken Loach -- Of the terrible doubt of appearances / by Walt Whitman / Stephen Fry -- Remember / by Christina Rossetti / Robert Fisk and Julian Fellowes -- After great pain / by Emily Dickinson / Douglas Kennedy -- Peer Gynt / by Henrik Ibsen / Kenneth Branagh -- Requiem / by Robert Louis Stevenson / Christopher Buckley -- The remorseful day / by A.E. Housman / Joe Klein -- The wind, one brilliant day / by Antonio Machado / Robert Bly -- Orpheus. Eurydice. Hermes / by Rainer Maria Rilke / Colm Tóibín -- Ithaka / by Constantine P. Cavafy / Walter Salles -- At Castle Boterel / by Thomas Hardy / Alan Hollinghurst -- The voice / by Thomas Hardy / Seamus Heaney -- Adlestrop / by Edward Thomas / Simon Winchester -- The soldier / by Rupert Brooke / Hugh Bonneville -- During wind and rain / by Thomas Hardy / Ken Follett -- Dulce et decorum est / by Wilfred Owen / Christopher Hitchens -- God's world / by Edna St. Vincent Millay / Patrick Stewart -- Everyone sang / by Siegfried Sassoon / Barry Humphries -- Last poems: XL / by A.E. Housman / Andrew Motion and Richard Dawkins -- God wills it / by Gabriela Mistral / Jeremy Irons -- Out of work / by Kenneth H. Ashley / Felix Dennis -- All the pretty horses / by Anonymous / Carl Bernstein -- The cool web / by Robert Graves / John Sutherland -- The broken tower / by Hart Crane / Harold Bloom -- Bavarian gentians / by D.H. Lawrence / Simon Armitage -- A summer night / by W.H. Auden / William Boyd -- Those who are near me do not know / by Rabindranath Tagore / Chris Cooper -- Let my country awake / by Rabindranath Tagore / Salil Shetty and David Puttnam -- Finnegans Wake / by James Joyce / James McManus -- In memory of W.B. Yeats / by W.H. Auden / Salman Rushdie -- Lullaby / by W.H. Auden / Simon Schama and Simon Callow -- If I could tell you / by W.H. Auden / Alexander McCall Smith -- Canoe / by Keith Douglas / Clive James -- My Papa's waltz / by Theodore Roethke / Stanley Tucci -- The book burnings / by Bertolt Brecht / Jack Mapanje -- Liberté / by Paul Éluard / Joe Wright -- The Pisan cantos / by Ezra Pound / Craig Raine.
I see a girl dragged by the wrists / by Philip Larkin / Simon Russell Beale -- The mother / by Gwendolyn Brooks / Terrance Hayes -- The death of the ball turret gunner / by Randall Jarrell / Paul Muldoon -- War has been brought into disrepute / by Bertolt Brecht / David Hare -- Le message / by Jacques Prévert / Peter Sís -- Do not go gentle into that good night / by Dylan Thomas / Benjamin Zephaniah -- Unfinished poem / by Philip Larkin / Frank Kermode -- Over 2,000 illustrations and a complete concordance / by Elizabeth Bishop / John Ashbery -- End of summer / by Stanley Kunitz / Nicholson Baker -- The horses / by Edwin Muir / Alexei Sayle -- Friday's child / by W.H. Auden / Rowan Williams -- Long distance I and II / by Tony Harrison / Daniel Radcliffe -- The widower in the country / by Les Murray / Nick Cave -- A blessing / by James Arlington Wright / Richard Ford -- Injustice / by Pablo Neruda / Carlos Reyes-Manzo -- The meaning of Africa / by Abioseh Nicol / James Earl Jones -- Elegy for Alto / by Christopher Okigbo / Ben Okri -- Requiem for the croppies / by Seamus Heaney / Terry George -- Gone ladies / by Christopher Logue / Brian Patten -- Dream song 90: Op. posth. no. 13 / by John Berryman / Al Alvarez -- Essay / by Hayden Carruth / Jonathan Franzen -- An exequy / by Peter Porter / Ian McEwan -- Crusoe in England / by Elizabeth Bishop / Andrew Solomon -- For Julia, in the deep water / by John N. Morris / Tobias Wolff -- Aubade / by Philip Larkin / William Sieghart -- Dear Bryan Wynter / by W.S. Graham / Nick Laird -- A meeting / by Wendell Berry / Colum McCann -- eulogy to a hell of a dame--- / by Charles Bukowski / Mike Leigh -- Midsummer: Sonnet XLIII / by Derek Walcott / Mark Haddon -- In Blackwater Woods / by Mary Oliver / Marc Forster -- Love after love / by Derek Walcott / Tom Hiddleston -- and our faces, my heart, brief as photos / by John Berger / Simon McBurney -- Sandra's Mobile / by Douglas Dunn / Richard Eyre -- Brindis con el Viejo / by Mauricio Rosencof / Juan Méndez -- An end or a beginning / by Bei Dao / Wuer Kaixi -- A call / by Seamus Heaney / Richard Curtis -- Eastern War Time / by Adrienne Rich / Anish Kapoor -- It is here (for A) / by Harold Pinter / Neil LaBute -- For Andrew Wood / by James Fenton / David Remnick -- Not cancelled yet / by John Updike / Joseph O'Neill -- Armada / by Brian Patten / Paul Bettany -- A poetry reading at West Point / by William Matthews / Tom McCarthy -- Bedecked / by Victoria Redel / Billy Collins -- The lanyard / by Billy Collins / J.J. Abrams -- Regarding the home of one's childhood, one could: / by Emily Zinnemann / Colin Firth -- For Ruthie Rogers in Venice / by Craig Raine / Richard Rogers -- Keys to the doors / by Robin Robertson / Mohsin Hamid -- Afterword / Nadine Gordimer.
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