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Index
Cover
Contents
Title Page
Foreword by Griff Rhys Jones
Benjamin Zephaniah What If
Rudyard Kipling If—
‘His Look Was a Lion’s, Full of Rage, Defiance’
Dylan Thomas: Do not go gentle into that good night
Jenny Joseph: Warning
Edmund Blunden: The Midnight Skaters
Sylvia Plath: Lady Lazarus
W.B. Yeats: An Irish Airman Foresees His Death
Maya Angelou: Phenomenal Woman
Wilfred Owen: Dulce et Decorum Est
Sylvia Plath: Daddy
John Hegley: Autumn Verses
Hal Summers: My Old Cat
Maya Angelou: Still I Rise
‘What Will Survive of Us is Love’
Philip Larkin: An Arundel Tomb
E.E. Cummings: Somewhere I Have Never Travelled
Sir John Betjeman: A Subaltern’s Love-song
W.H. Auden: Carry Her Over the Water
Jon Stallworthy: The Almond Tree
Louis Macneice: Meeting Point
Adrian Henri: Without You
Anon: Footprints
Dylan Thomas: from Under Milk Wood
Stevie Smith: The Singing Cat
Edwin Morgan: Strawberries
Roger McGough: Vinegar
Sir John Betjeman: Myfanwy
W.B. Yeats: He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
‘… We Have no Hope of Better Happiness than this, …‘
Hugo Williams: Tides
Wendy Cope: Loss
Roger McGough: Comeclose and Sleepnow
Brian Patten: Portrait of a Young Girl Raped at a Suburban Party
Douglas Dunn: Modern Love
Alice Walker: Did this Happen to Your Mother? Did Your Sister Throw Up a Lot?
Philip Larkin: Deceptions
Brian Patten: A Blade of Grass
Wendy Cope: A Christmas Poem
‘In Labour-Saving Homes, With Care Their Wives Frizz Out Peroxide Hair’
Craig Raine: A Martian Sends a Postcard Home
Philip Larkin: Toads
W.H. Auden: Night Mail
Philip Larkin: Going, Going
Robert Graves: Welsh Incident
Philip Larkin: The Whitsun Weddings
Sir John Betjeman: Slough
‘For Human Beings Only Do What Their Religion Tells Them to’
Sir John Betjeman: In Westminster Abbey
Seamus Heaney: Follower
Charles Causley: Timothy Winters
Philip Larkin: This Be the Verse
A.E. Housman: In Valleys Green and Still
George Macbeth: The Miner’s Helmet
Charles Causley: Ballad of the Bread Man
Sir John Betjeman: Diary of a Church Mouse
‘Between The Streams and The Red Clouds, Hearing Curlews’
Laurie Lee: April Rise
Vernon Watkins: Peace in the Welsh Hills
D.H. Lawrence: Bavarian Gentians
R.S. Thomas: A Peasant
Ted Hughes: Wind
Robert Frost: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Ted Hughes: The Horses
Laurence Binyon: The Burning of the Leaves
‘I Believe Life ends With Death, and That is All’
Roger McGough: Let Me Die a Youngman’s Death
John McCrae: In Flanders Fields
Charles Causley: I Saw a Jolly Hunter
Sir John Betjeman: Death in Leamington
Seamus Heaney: Mid-Term Break
Siegfried Sassoon: The Death-Bed
Stevie Smith: Not Waving but Drowning
Ted Hughes: View of a Pig
Philip Larkin: Ambulances
Tony Harrison: Long Distance II
Jon Silkin: Death of a Son
Siegfried Sassoon: Base Details
Wilfred Owen: The Send-Off
W.H. Auden: Stop all the Clocks (IX from Twelve Songs)
‘For There is Good News Yet to Hear and Fine Things to Be Seen’
R.S. Thomas: The Bright Field
Sheenagh Pugh: Sometimes
Sir John Betjeman: Christmas
Philip Larkin: Church Going
Carol Ann Duffy: Prayer
W.B. Yeats: Sailing to Byzantium
Ted Hughes: The Thought-Fox
Benjamin Zephaniah: Dis Poetry
Seamus Heaney: Digging
T.S. Eliot: Little Gidding (I)
G.K. Chesterton: The Rolling English Road
Laurie Lee: Christmas Landscape
Stephen Spender: I Think Continually of Those Who Were Truly Great
‘Time Held Me Green and Dying’
Dylan Thomas: Fern Hill
Seamus Heaney: Blackberry-Picking
Thomas Hardy: ‘If It’s Ever Spring Again’
Dylan Thomas: The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower
Gavin Ewart: A 14-Year-Old Convalescent Cat in the Winter
Dylan Thomas: Poem in October
A.E. Housman: Into My Heart An Air That Kills
‘Things Fall Apart; The Centre Cannot Hold; Mere Anarchy is Loosed Upon The World’
Edwin Muir: The Horses
Roger McGough: At Lunchtime
Walter de la Mare: The Listeners
Adrian Mitchell: Fifteen Million Plastic Bags
T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land (II. A Game of Chess)
W.B. Yeats: The Second Coming
Index of Poets’ Names
Index of First Lines
Acknowledgements
Copyright
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