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Content index > Poets on Screen
The Poets on Screen collection showcases contemporary poets reading selections of their own work and their favourite classic poems. These clips are the result of an ambitious five-year project funded by ProQuest and poets recorded now include Andrew Motion, Gillian Clarke, Simon Armitage, Margaret Atwood, and Benjamin Zephaniah.
Each Poets on Screen reading gives students the chance to see and hear one poet's interpretation of the work, prompting the discussion of what form alternative readings might take and how this reading has influenced their thoughts about the poem and other works they have studied.
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1750-1900, Miscellanies and Collections,
Miscellanies and Collections, 1750-1900's work read by other poets:
The Twa Corbies read by Matthew Sweeney 1 min 6 sec
Adcock, Fleur
Fleur Adcock reading her own work:
227 Peel Green Road 2 min 46 sec
Counting 2 min 25 sec
Creosote 1 min 20 sec
The Ex-Queen Among the Astronomers 2 min 41 sec
For Heidi with Blue Hair 2 min 3 sec
For Meg 2 min 31 sec
Giggling 1 min 35 sec
The Keepsake 3 min 48 sec
My Father 3 min 2 sec
The Prize-Winning Poem 2 min 50 sec
A Surprise in the Peninsula 2 min 16 sec
Things 44 sec
Witnesses 2 min 42 sec
Fleur Adcock reading other poets' work:
'As you came from the Holy Land...' by Walter Raleigh 2 min 8 sec
'Death be not proud…' by John Donne 59 sec
Frost at Midnight by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 4 min 21 sec
The Garden by Andrew Marvell 3 min 28 sec
Old Man by Edward Thomas 2 min 25 sec
Request to a Year by Judith Wright 1 min 16 sec
Agbabi, Patience
Patience Agbabi reading her own work:
The Black, the White and the Blue 4 min 3 sec
The Change 1 min 30 sec
Countdown to Zero 3 min 3 sec
The Joyrider 3 min 51 sec
North(west)ern 2 min 10 sec
Prologue 3 min 25 sec
R&B 2 min 35 sec
The Tiger 3 min 20 sec
Transformatrix 1 min 49 sec
Ufo Woman 5 min 14 sec
Wife of Bafa 2 min 53 sec
Patience Agbabi reading other poets' work:
Ah! Sun-flower by William Blake 38 sec
Break, break, break by Alfred Lord Tennyson 55 sec
Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen 1 min 57 sec
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1 min
5 sec
La Belle Dame sans Merci by John Keats 2 min 29 sec
London by William Blake 58 sec
On Being Brought from Africa to America by Phyllis Wheatley 41 sec
From the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer 1 min 15 sec
Remember by Christina Rossetti 1 min 0 sec
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Part I by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 3 min 46
sec
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Part II by Samuel Taylor Coleridge 3 min 55
sec
Sonnet CXXIX by William Shakespeare 1 min 10 sec
Sonnet XXIX by William Shakespeare 1 min 7 sec
The Tyger by William Blake 1 min 17 sec
Armitage, Simon
Simon Armitage reading his own work:
The army drives with its headlights on 1 min 13 sec
The Clown Punk 3 min 3 sec
Killing Time #2 2 min 51 sec
Leaves on the Line 1 min 39 sec
The Shout 2 min 32 sec
The Straight and Narrow 2 min 30 sec
The Strid 3 min 42 sec
Arnold, Matthew
Matthew Arnold's work read by other poets:
Dover Beach read by Robert Creeley 2 min 28 sec
Ashbery, John
John Ashbery reading his own work:
Avenue Mozart 1 min 10 sec
Baltimore 58 sec
Dear Sir or Madam 1 min 9 sec
Ice Cream in America 49 sec
Landscape 1 min 32 sec
Laughing Gravy 1 min 6 sec
Little Sick Poem 1 min 39 sec
A Mood of Quiet Beauty 1 min 9 sec
On His Reluctance to Take Down the Christmas Ornaments 1 min 14 sec
Runway 2 min 19 sec
Some Trees 1 min 42 sec
Spotlight on America 1 min 24 sec
Stanzas Before Time 1 min 14 sec
A Star Belched 1 min 31 sec
This Room 1 min 1 sec
Thoughts of a Young Girl 1 min 15 sec
Title Search 1 min 55 sec
Two Scenes 1 min 20 sec
Variant 1 min 16 sec
View of Delft 1 min 24 sec
World’s End 59 sec
Atwood, Margaret
Margaret Atwood reading her own work:
The Immigrants 3 min 16 sec
Interlunar 2 min 34 sec
King Lear in Respite Care 2 min 41 sec
The Loneliness of the Military Historian 5 min 37 sec
Morning in the Burned House 2 min 15 sec
Owl Song 1 min 48 sec
A Sad Child 1 min 35 sec
Siren Song 1 min 57 sec
Snake Woman 1 min 45 sec
They Eat Out 1 min 31 sec
This is a Photograph of Me 1 min 14 sec
Variation on the Word 'Sleep' 1 min 35 sec
The Woman Who Could Not Live With Her Faulty Heart 2 min 16 sec
You Begin 2 min 0 sec
Bhatt, Sujata
Sujata Bhatt reading her own work:
Another Day in Iowa City 2 min 23 sec
A Colour for Solitude 6 min 41 sec
Counting Sheep White Blood Cells 3 min 10 sec
Cow's Skull - Red, White and Blue 1 min 38 sec
A Different History 1 min 52 sec
The Doors Are Always Open 2 min 6 sec
Icicles Hang from the Reeds of Our Roof 47 sec
Introduction to the collection A Colour for Solitude 1 min 46 sec
The Mammoth Bone 1 min 15 sec
'Man Swept out to Sea as Huge Wave Hit Rock' 1 min 55 sec
Montauk Garden with Stones and Water 37 sec
Muliebrity 1 min 31 sec
The Need to Recall the Journey 5 min 4 sec
The One Who Goes Away 3 min 33 sec
Partition 1 min 55 sec
Point No Point 3 min 12 sec
The Pope, Tito and the WHO 1 min 58 sec
Self-Portrait as a Standing Nude with a Hat 2 min 4 sec
Self-Portrait done with Red Chalk 1 min 10 sec
Self-Portrait with Coppery Red Hair 1 min 24 sec
Self-Portrait with Your Jaw Set 1 min 10 sec
The Stinking Rose 2 min 27 sec
Sujata: The First Disciple of Buddha 2 min 41 sec
Two Girls: The Blind Sister 1 min 3 sec
Two Girls, Two Sisters 43 sec
(Udaylee) 1 min 56 sec
The Virologist 55 sec
We are Adrift 1 min 42 sec
What is Exotic? 41 sec
You are the Rose 2 min 4 sec
Your Postcards 1 min 40 sec
Blake, William
William Blake's work read by other poets:
Ah! Sun-flower read by Patience Agbabi 38 sec
The Clod & the Pebble read by Blake Morrison 1 min 4 sec
The Garden of Love read by Matthew Sweeney 41 sec
Little Boy Lost read by Robert Creeley 1 min 11 sec
London read by Patience Agbabi 58 sec
A Poison Tree read by Matthew Sweeney 50 sec
The Sick Rose read by Lavinia Greenlaw 27 sec
The Tyger read by Patience Agbabi 1 min 17 sec
Bly, Robert
Robert Bly reading his own work:
After Drinking All Night with a Friend, We Go Out in a Boat at Dawn to See Who
Can Write the Best Poem 2 min 52 sec
After Working 1 min 28 sec
At the Funeral of Great-Aunt Mary 3 min 1 sec
Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter 1 min 21 sec
For My Son, Noah, Ten Years Old 2 min 17 sec
Listening to the Köln Concert 2 min 8 sec
Love Poem 39 sec
A Man Writes to a Part of Himself 1 min 51 sec
Passing an Orchard by Train 1 min 23 sec
Poem Against the British 1 min 38 sec
Poem in Three Parts 3 min 53 sec
Snowbanks North of the House 3 min 4 sec
Snowfall in the Afternoon 2 min 41 sec
“Taking the hands” 1 min 2 sec
Watering the Horse 1 min 8 sec
Robert Bly reading other poets' work:
Song of Myself from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman 1 min 56 sec
Wild Nights! Wild Nights! by Emily Dickinson 1 min 14 sec
Boland, Eavan
Eavan Boland reading her own work:
The Achill Woman 2 min 45 sec
The Black Lace Fan My Mother Gave Me 1 min 44 sec
Code 4 min 12 sec
The Emigrant Irish 55 sec
Exile, Exile! 1 min 43 sec
How We Made a New Art on Old Ground 2 min 51 sec
The Journey 5 min 44 sec
Lava Cameo 3 min 17 sec
Love 3 min 56 sec
The Necessity for Irony 1 min 38 sec
Object Lessons 2 min 56 sec
Once in Dublin 1 min 27 sec
The Pomegranate 3 min 56 sec
Quarantine 3 min 1 sec
That the Science of Cartography is Limited 2 min 14 sec
What We Lost 2 min 49 sec
Bradstreet, Anne
Anne Bradstreet's work read by other poets:
Before the Birth of One of her Children read by Sharon Olds 2 min 4 sec
To my Dear and Loving Husband read by Lavinia Greenlaw 57 sec
Breeze, Jean Binta
Jean Binta Breeze reading her own work:
Aid Travels wi de Bomb 2 min 53 sec
The Arrival of Brighteye 9 min 28 sec
Caribbean Woman 4 min 9 sec
Come Make We Plant 30 sec
Dubwise 1 min 6 sec
Eena mi corner 4 min 4 sec
Ordinary Mawning 2 min 24 sec
Simple Tings 4 min 6 sec
A Song to Heal 1 min 50 sec
Soun de abeng fi Nanny 4 min 54 sec
Brontë, Emily
Emily Brontë's work read by other poets:
‘In the earth, the earth thou shalt be laid’ read by Lavinia Greenlaw 1 min 24
sec
Remembrance read by Susan Howe 2 min 23 sec
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's work read by other poets:
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways read by Patience Agbabi 1 min 5 sec
‘My letters! All dead paper’ read by Lavinia Greenlaw 1 min 9 sec
Browning, Robert
Robert Browning's work read by other poets:
My Last Duchess read by Imtiaz Dharker 2 min 49 sec
Porphyria's Lover read by Matthew Sweeney 2 min 48 sec
Byron, George Gordon Noel
George Gordon Noel Byron's work read by other poets:
She walks in beauty read by Robert Creeley 1 min 12 sec
So We'll Go No More A-Roving read by Lavinia Greenlaw 42 sec
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Geoffrey Chaucer's work read by other poets:
From the Prologue to the Canterbury Tales read by Patience Agbabi 1 min 15
sec
Clare, John
John Clare's work read by other poets:
'I Am' read by Lavinia Greenlaw 1 min 16 sec
Clarke, Gillian
Gillian Clarke reading her own work:
Amber 2 min 3 sec
Anorexic 1 min 39 sec
Blaen Cwrt 2 min 19 sec
A Difficult Birth, Easter 1998 2 min 29 sec
The King of Britain's Daughter 1 min 43 sec
Lament 1 min 44 sec
Legend 1 min 53 sec
The Listeners 1 min 53 sec
Marged 1 min 35 sec
Musician 2 min 7 sec
Red Poppy 1 min 44 sec
Sunday 2 min 32 sec
The Vet 1 min 40 sec
The West Window of York Minster 1 min 19 sec
Gillian Clarke reading other poets' work:
'The cool that came off sheets straight off the line….' by Seamus Heaney 1 min
35 sec
He reproves the Curlew by W. B. Yeats 55 sec
In the Bleak Mid-Winter by Christina Rossetti 1 min 9 sec
October Dawn by Ted Hughes 1 min 43 sec
Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats 6 min 12 sec
Prayer by Carol Ann Duffy 1 min 15 sec
To the Etruscan Poets by Richard Wilbur 1 min 12 sec
Zero by R.S. Thomas 1 min 37 sec
Codrescu, Andrei
Andrei Codrescu reading his own work:
As Tears Go By 2 min 22 sec
Brancusi's Fish 3 min 2 sec
Demands of Exile 3 min 7 sec
A Geography of Poets 1 min 23 sec
How I Got to America 1 min 50 sec
Laura 52 sec
A Leafy Angel 1 min 45 sec
Leaves of Nerves 1 min 6 sec
Music 6 min 49 sec
Often After a Public Event 44 sec
Poetry, the Ancients Said 35 sec
To a Young Poet 1 min 29 sec
To the Museum Curators 1 min 11 sec
Volcanic Dirge & Co 43 sec
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Samuel Taylor Coleridge's work read by other poets:
Frost at Midnight read by Fleur Adcock 4 min 21 sec
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Part I read by Patience Agbabi 3 min 46 sec
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: Part II read by Patience Agbabi 3 min 55 sec
Collins, Billy
Billy Collins reading his own work:
The Country 2 min 22 sec
Litany 2 min 40 sec
Love 1 min 46 sec
'More than a Woman' 2 min 40 sec
Poetry 1 min 30 sec
Surprise 1 min 13 sec
Velocity 2 min 37 sec
Cope, Wendy
Wendy Cope reading her own work:
Being Boring 1 min 34 sec
Bloody Men 47 sec
By the Round Pond 1 min 5 sec
The Christmas Life 1 min 11 sec
Fireworks Poem 18 sec
Flowers 44 sec
John Clare 47 sec
Loss 21 sec
Names 1 min 7 sec
A Nursery Rhyme (as it might have been written by William Wordsworth) 1 min
12 sec
The Orange 44 sec
Reading Scheme 1 min 40 sec
The Sitter 1 min 8 sec
Some More Light Verse 1 min 10 sec
Waste Land Limericks 1 min 24 sec
Wendy Cope reading other poets' work:
Celtic by Gavin Ewart 22 sec
'From far, from eve and morning' by A E Housman 47 sec
Love can do all but raise the dead…' by Emily Dickinson 33 sec
Nothing by James Fenton 1 min 6 sec
'Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word…' by Edna St. Vincent Millay 1 min 1 sec
The Orbison Consolations by Kit Wright 1 min 11 sec
The Trees by Philip Larkin 51 sec
A True Hymn by George Herbert 1 min 14 sec
Cortez, Jayne
Jayne Cortez reading her own work:
Bumblebee, You Saw Big Mama 1 min 53 sec
Find Your Own Voice 1 min 12 sec
Global Inequalities 1 min 51 sec
The Guitars I Used To Know 3 min 12 sec
I Am New York City 2 min 34 sec
I See Chano Pozo 3 min 25 sec
Sacred Trees 3 min 5 sec
She Got He Got 4 min 43 sec
Somewhere A Woman is Singing 1 min 40 sec
War 2 min 47 sec
Creeley, Robert
Robert Creeley reading his own work:
The Doctor 1 min 17 sec
'Do You Think…' 2 min 7 sec
For Love 2 min 39 sec
For My Mother Genevieve Jules Creeley 3 min 16 sec
Four Years Later 1 min 17 sec
Good Bye 48 sec
I 3 min 6 sec
I Know a Man 35 sec
Kore 1 min 1 sec
The Moon 1 min 15 sec
The People 39 sec
The Rain 1 min 40 sec
The Rhythm 1 min 20 sec
Some Echoes 29 sec
A Song 1 min 5 sec
Thanks 1 min 2 sec
Robert Creeley reading other poets' work:
Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold 2 min 28 sec
I wandered lonely as a cloud by William Wordsworth 1 min 23 sec
Little Boy Lost by William Blake 1 min 11 sec
Oh Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman 2 min 23 sec
A Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1 min 54 sec
She walks in beauty by George Gordon Noel Byron 1 min 12 sec
'Success is counted sweetest' by Emily Dickinson 45 sec
The Voice by Thomas Hardy 1 min 5 sec
When I consider how my light is spent by John Milton 1 min 15 sec
D'Aguiar, Fred
Fred D'Aguiar reading his own work:
Airy Hall, Mid-Morning 1 min 13 sec
Airy Hall's Common Denominators 1 min 56 sec
Autobiography of a Stone 2 min 28 sec
The Cow Perseverance 4 min 19 sec
The Day Mama Dot Takes Ill 2 min 11 sec
From Bill of Rights: 'Don't Argue with Father' 52 sec
From Bill of Rights: 'Fingertips Gone' 31 sec
From Bill of Rights: 'Holy is Coconut with Cream and Water' 1 min 6 sec
From Bill of Rights: 'I Tap the Acacia Tree for Gum' 1 min 11 sec
From Bill of Rights: 'I Woke with Casandra Wilson's Tupelo' 1 min 6 sec
From Bill of Rights: 'RainThrough Sun and I Hear Father' 1 min 17 sec
From Bill of Rights: 'Shame is the Sweat on the Back of the Neck' 1 min 14 sec
From Bill of Rights: 'Someone's Wife is Always Sweeter' 36 sec
Introduction to Bill of Rights 48 sec
The Last Sonnet About Slavery (After Hogarth) 1 min 34 sec
Lost and Found 1 min 6 sec
An Outie 1 min 59 sec
Papa T. 2 min 16 sec
Daniel, Samuel
Samuel Daniel's work read by other poets:
Care-charmer sleepe, sonne of the Sable night read by Sharon Olds 1 min 23
sec
Dharker, Imtiaz
Imtiaz Dharker reading her own work:
Adam From New Zealand 2 min 5 sec
After Creation 2 min 2 sec
All Of Us 1 min 56 sec
At the Lahore Karai 2 min 23 sec
Battle Line 3 min 9 sec
Blessing 1 min 52 sec
Exile 28 sec
Exorcism 2 min 1 sec
Honour Killing 1 min 58 sec
I Speak For The Devil 3 min 52 sec
Namesake 1 min 12 sec
No Man's Land 3 min 18 sec
One Breath 1 min 19 sec
Postcards From God I 1 min 46 sec
Prayer 1 min 30 sec
Purdah I 3 min 39 sec
Question I 1 min 23 sec
Scaffolding 1 min 41 sec
They'll Say, "She Must Be From Another Country" 2 min 43 sec
Wait 1 min 40 sec
The Word 2 min 3 sec
Imtiaz Dharker reading other poets' work:
'Batter my heart…' by John Donne 59 sec
Everyone Sang by Siegfried Sassoon 49 sec
Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath 3 min 10 sec
My Last Duchess by Robert Browning 2 min 49 sec
Originally by Carol Ann Duffy 1 min 50 sec
Taxis by Louis Macneice 1 min 9 sec
The Windhover: To Christ Our Lord by Gerard Manley Hopkins 1 min 15 sec
Dickinson, Emily
Emily Dickinson's work read by other poets:
‘Because I could not stop for Death’ read by Susan Howe 1 min 17 sec
‘I died for Beauty – but was scarce’ read by Susan Howe 47 sec
‘I died for Beauty – but was scarce’ read by Sharon Olds 45 sec
‘It was not Death, for I stood up’ read by Susan Howe 1 min 21 sec
Love can do all but raise the dead…' read by Wendy Cope 33 sec
‘Safe in their Alabaster Chambers’ read by Susan Howe 1 min 4 sec
‘Safe in their Alabaster Chambers’ read by Sharon Olds 1 min 14 sec
'Success is counted sweetest' read by Robert Creeley 45 sec
‘That love is all there is’ read by Lavinia Greenlaw 17 sec
‘There’s a certain Slant of light’ read by Susan Howe 53 sec
'There's Been a Death in the Opposite House' read by Matthew Sweeney 1 min 1
sec
Wild Nights! Wild Nights! read by Robert Bly 1 min 14 sec
‘Wild Nights! Wild Nights!’ read by Sharon Olds 40 sec
'The Wind Tapped Like a Tired Man' read by Matthew Sweeney 50 sec
Donne, John
John Donne's work read by other poets:
'Batter my heart…' read by Imtiaz Dharker 59 sec
'Death be not proud…' read by Fleur Adcock 59 sec
To his Mistress Going to Bed read by Sharon Olds 3 min 17 sec
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning read by Lavinia Greenlaw 2 min 1 sec
Drayton, Michael
Michael Drayton's work read by other poets:
‘Since there’s no help’ read by Lavinia Greenlaw 59 sec
Dryden, John
John Dryden's work read by other poets:
From The Secular Masque read by P.J. Kavanagh 1 min 27 sec
Duffy, Carol Ann
Carol Ann Duffy's work read by other poets:
Originally read by Imtiaz Dharker 1 min 50 sec
Prayer read by Gillian Clarke 1 min 15 sec
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Ralph Waldo Emerson's work read by other poets:
Concord Hymn read by Richard Wilbur 1 min 26 sec
Days read by Richard Wilbur 58 sec
Ewart, Gavin
Gavin Ewart's work read by other poets:
Celtic read by Wendy Cope 22 sec
Fanthorpe, U. A.
U. A. Fanthorpe reading her own work:
Atlas 1 min 22 sec
Dear Mr Lee 3 min 23 sec
The Doctor 2 min 32 sec
Half Past Two 1 min 57 sec
A Major Road for Romney Marsh 1 min 59 sec
Not My Best Side 3 min 17 sec
Old Man, Old Man 2 min 23 sec
The Poet's Companion 2 min 37 sec
Reading Between 3 min 37 sec
Reports 1 min 48 sec
Rising Damp 3 min 7 sec
You Will be Hearing From Us Shortly 1 min 45 sec
Fenton, James
James Fenton reading his own work:
The Ballad of the Shrieking Man 4 min 52 sec
Blood and Lead 47 sec
Here Come the Drum Majorettes! 3 min 25 sec
Jerusalem 3 min 25 sec
Out of the East 5 min 2 sec
Tiananmen 1 min 18 sec
James Fenton's work read by other poets:
Nothing read by Wendy Cope 1 min 6 sec
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
Lawrence Ferlinghetti reading his own work:
Alan Ginsberg Dying 2 min 50 sec
Are There Not Still Fireflies… 2 min 37 sec
Constantly Risking Absurdity… 1 min 19 sec
History of the Airplane 4 min 2 sec
In Goya’s Greatest Scenes We Seem To See… 1 min 48 sec
The Old Italians Dying 5 min 50 sec
The Pennycandystore Beyond The El… 1 min 0 sec
Reading Yeats I Do Not Think… 1 min 42 sec
See It Was Like This When… 43 sec
To the Oracle at Delphi 3 min 16 sec
The World is a Beautiful Place 2 min 0 sec
Fisher, Roy
Roy Fisher reading his own work:
Birmingham River 3 min 57 sec
Epic 36 sec
The Host 1 min 2 sec
The House on the Border 1 min 35 sec
Hypnopaedia 1 min 16 sec
'IV Core', from A Furnace 2 min 34 sec
Just Where to Draw the Line 48 sec
The Nation 2 min 8 sec
Paraphrases 4 min 14 sec
Photographers’ Flowers 1 min 10 sec
Poem 53 sec
A Poem to be Watched 38 sec
The Poetry of Place 1 min 0 sec
Promenade on Down 2 min 22 sec
Starting to Make a Tree 2 min 35 sec
Stop 19 sec
Why They Stopped Singing 1 min 3 sec
Giovanni, Nikki
Nikki Giovanni reading her own work:
Balances 42 sec
Beautiful Black Men 1 min 7 sec
Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day 2 min 17 sec
Ego Tripping (there may be a reason why) 1 min 55 sec
The Funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr. 32 sec
In the Spirit of Martin 3 min 10 sec
I Wrote a Good Omlet 39 sec
Kidnap poem 39 sec
Knoxville, Tennessee 36 sec
My House 1 min 23 sec
Nikki-Roasa 1 min 20 sec
Poem for Aretha 3 min 42 sec
Rosa Parks 3 min 51 sec
The Song of the Feet 1 min 4 sec
What It Is 1 min 2 sec
Nikki Giovanni reading other poets' work:
The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes 1 min 36 sec
Goodison, Lorna
Lorna Goodison reading her own work:
Aunt Rose’s Honey Advice 1 min 31 sec
Coir 6 min 16 sec
Guinea Woman 1 min 34 sec
Heartease New England 1987 3 min 52 sec
Hungry Belly Kill Daley 1 min 29 sec
I Am Becoming My Mother 45 sec
‘I Shall Light a Candle of Understanding…’ 1 min 14 sec
Keith Jarrett - Rainmaker 1 min 23 sec
Lullaby for Jean Rhys 44 sec
The Mango of Poetry 1 min 48 sec
Mother the Great Stones Got to Move 3 min 6 sec
My Will 1 min 27 sec
Some Things You Do Not Know about Me 3 min 8 sec
Songs for my Son 2 min 26 sec
This Is a Hymn 1 min 35 sec
To Become Green Again and Young 2 min 29 sec
To Mister William Wordsworth, Distributor of Stamps… 3 min 19 sec
Turn Thanks to Miss Mirry 3 min 27 sec
White Birds 55 sec
Gray, Thomas
Thomas Gray's work read by other poets:
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard read by Lavinia Greenlaw 7 min 49 sec
Greenlaw, Lavinia
Lavinia Greenlaw reading her own work:
Blue Field 1 min 59 sec
Clownfish 2 min 2 sec
The Innocence of Radium 2 min 26 sec
Late Sun 37 sec
A Letter from Madame Curie 1 min 12 sec
The Long Day Closes 1 min 44 sec
Night Photograph 1 min 49 sec
Our Life as Friends 1 min 53 sec
Reading Akhmatova in Midwinter 1 min 44 sec
Red Rackham’s Treasure 1 min 37 sec
River History 4 min 4 sec
The Spirit of the Staircase 1 min 21 sec
A World Where News Travelled Slowly 1 min 37 sec
Zombies 1 min 51 sec
Lavinia Greenlaw reading other poets' work:
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray 7 min 49 sec
'I Am' by John Clare 1 min 16 sec
‘In the earth, the earth thou shalt be laid’ by Emily Brontë 1 min 24 sec
‘My letters! All dead paper’ by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1 min 9 sec
Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins 57 sec
The Sick Rose by William Blake 27 sec
‘Since there’s no help’ by Michael Drayton 59 sec
So We'll Go No More A-Roving by George Gordon Noel Byron 42 sec
‘That love is all there is’ by Emily Dickinson 17 sec
‘This living hand, now warm and capable’ by John Keats 36 sec
To my Dear and Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet 57 sec
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning by John Donne 2 min 1 sec
Gunn, Thom.
Thom. Gunn reading his own work:
'All Do Not All Things Well' 3 min 40 sec
Black Jackets 2 min 15 sec
Considering the Snail (two parts) 1 min 38 sec
The Conversation of Old Men 1 min 13 sec
The Discovery of the Pacific 3 min 8 sec
Elegy 1 min 56 sec
Flying Above California 1 min 25 sec
The Girls Next Door 2 min 9 sec
The Hug 1 min 23 sec
In Praise of Cities 3 min 2 sec
Moly 4 min 11 sec
My Sad Captains 1 min 43 sec
Night Taxi 3 min 16 sec
The Reassurance 46 sec
Tamer and Hawk 2 min 4 sec
Taylor Street 1 min 17 sec
The Unsettled Motorcyclist's Vision of his Death 2 min 52 sec
The Wound 2 min 48 sec
Wrestling 3 min 29 sec
Gurney, Ivor
Ivor Gurney's work read by other poets:
Hedger read by P.J. Kavanagh 1 min 50 sec
Hardy, Thomas
Thomas Hardy's work read by other poets:
The Haunter read by Susan Howe 2 min 30 sec
The Man He Killed read by Matthew Sweeney 1 min 0 sec
Neutral Tones read by Susan Howe 1 min 49 sec
Snow in the Suburbs read by Matthew Sweeney 1 min 6 sec
The Voice read by Robert Creeley 1 min 5 sec
The Walk read by Matthew Sweeney 40 sec
Harrison, Tony
Tony Harrison reading his own work:
Aqua Mortis 1 min 22 sec
Book Ends I 1 min 27 sec
Book Ends II 1 min 7 sec
Bringing Up 1 min 13 sec
Changing at York 1 min 11 sec
Clearing I 1 min 12 sec
Clearing II 1 min 12 sec
Confessional Poetry 1 min 7 sec
Continuous 2 min 30 sec
Heredity 28 sec
The Icing Hand 1 min 21 sec
Illuminations I 1 min 11 sec
Illuminations II 1 min 7 sec
Isolation 1 min 9 sec
Jumper 1 min 21 sec
Lines to my Grandfathers I 2 min 25 sec
Long Distance 1 min 13 sec
Marked With D. 2 min 12 sec
An Old Score 1 min 11 sec
Punchline 1 min 17 sec
Remains 1 min 15 sec
Timer 2 min 22 sec
Under the Clock 1 min 38 sec
Tony Harrison reading other poets' work:
'I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day' by Gerard Manley Hopkins 1 min 33
sec
To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell 2 min 33 sec
Hass, Robert
Robert Hass reading his own work:
Adhesive: For Earlene 1 min 34 sec
Black Mountain, Los Altos 2 min 6 sec
The Feast 1 min 26 sec
Happiness 1 min 52 sec
Heroic Simile 3 min 6 sec
The Image 49 sec
Meditation at Lagunitas 2 min 23 sec
Our Lady of the Snows 1 min 14 sec
Song 52 sec
Spring Rain 1 min 55 sec
A Story About the Body 1 min 40 sec
Yellow Bicycle 1 min 47 sec
Heaney, Seamus
Seamus Heaney's work read by other poets:
'The cool that came off sheets straight off the line….' read by Gillian Clarke 1
min 35 sec
Digging read by Blake Morrison 2 min 0 sec
Postscript read by P.J. Kavanagh 1 min 54 sec
Herbert, George
George Herbert's work read by other poets:
Love read by Charles Wright 1 min 17 sec
A True Hymn read by Wendy Cope 1 min 14 sec
Herrick, Robert
Robert Herrick's work read by other poets:
The Bag of Bee read by Matthew Sweeney 39 sec
The Coming of Good Luck read by Matthew Sweeney 22 sec
Delight in Disorder read by Matthew Sweeney 44 sec
Her Legs read by Matthew Sweeney 17 sec
To a Gentlewoman objecting to him his gray haries read by Matthew Sweeney
51 sec
Hill, Selima
Selima Hill reading her own work:
An Angel With Large Hands 38 sec
Arm 42 sec
Balaclava 28 sec
Beethoven’s Mother 1 min 3 sec
Blue 1 min 7 sec
Budgie 23 sec
Cashmere 51 sec
Chicken 25 sec
Colonnades 53 sec
A Day in the Life of Your Suitcase 1 min 9 sec
Dew Pond and Black Drain-Pipes 29 sec
Galloping Alopecia 2 min 4 sec
Hairbrush 1 min 9 sec
I Know I Ought to Love You 37 sec
Motes 59 sec
My Sister and I Visit the Zoo 39 sec
My Sister’s Jeans 1 min 17 sec
My Sister's Poodle Is Accused of Eating the Housekeeping Money 41 sec
Passion Fruit 22 sec
Please Can I Have A Man 1 min 57 sec
Pool 31 sec
Pyjama Case 58 sec
The Room 2 min 3 sec
Scarf 41 sec
Sky 29 sec
Song Birds 32 sec
Tulips 36 sec
The World’s Entire Wasp Population 50 sec
Your Face 37 sec
Your Girlfriend's Thigh 42 sec
Hopkins, Gerard Manley
Gerard Manley Hopkins's work read by other poets:
God's Grandeur read by Charles Wright 1 min 13 sec
'I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day' read by Tony Harrison 1 min 33 sec
Pied Beauty read by Lavinia Greenlaw 57 sec
The Windhover: To Christ Our Lord read by Imtiaz Dharker 1 min 15 sec
The Windhover: To Christ Our Lord read by Charles Wright 1 min 18 sec
Housman, A E
A E Housman's work read by other poets:
'From far, from eve and morning' read by Wendy Cope 47 sec
Howe, Susan
Susan Howe reading her own work:
From Frame Structures: Flanders 2 min 7 sec
Kidnapped (1) 2 min 50 sec
Kidnapped (2) 3 min 12 sec
Kidnapped (3) 1 min 33 sec
Kidnapped (4) 3 min 49 sec
From Pearl Harbor: Buffalo 12.7.41 5 min 0 sec
From Scarce Quotes: Glass Flowers 4 min 32 sec
Susan Howe reading other poets' work:
Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe 2 min 19 sec
‘Because I could not stop for Death’ by Emily Dickinson 1 min 17 sec
The Conqueror Worm by Edgar Allan Poe 2 min 10 sec
The Haunter by Thomas Hardy 2 min 30 sec
The House-top by Herman Melville 2 min 31 sec
‘I died for Beauty – but was scarce’ by Emily Dickinson 47 sec
‘It was not Death, for I stood up’ by Emily Dickinson 1 min 21 sec
Neutral Tones by Thomas Hardy 1 min 49 sec
The Portent by Herman Melville 45 sec
Reconciliation by Walt Whitman 1 min 9 sec
Remembrance by Emily Brontë 2 min 23 sec
‘Safe in their Alabaster Chambers’ by Emily Dickinson 1 min 4 sec
Shut Not Your Doors by Walt Whitman 45 sec
‘There’s a certain Slant of light’ by Emily Dickinson 53 sec
The Wound-Dresser by Walt Whitman 6 min 38 sec
Hughes, Langston
Langston Hughes's work read by other poets:
The Weary Blues read by Nikki Giovanni 1 min 36 sec
Hughes, Ted
Ted Hughes's work read by other poets:
October Dawn read by Gillian Clarke 1 min 43 sec
Jonson, Ben
Ben Jonson's work read by other poets:
from 'A Celebration of Charis' read by P.J. Kavanagh 2 min 32 sec
On my first Sonne read by Sharon Olds 1 min 4 sec
Kavanagh, P. J.
P. J. Kavanagh reading his own work:
From Albert Poems 1 min 4 sec
The Attempt 1 min 20 sec
Birth of Middle Age 1 min 5 sec
Black Bird in Fulham 3 min 14 sec
Borris House, Co. Carlow 2 min 5 sec
Commuter 1 min 14 sec
Dandelion 53 sec
Edward Thomas in Heaven 2 min 15 sec
Elder 1 min 27 sec
For C.E.K. 2 min 10 sec
Ivor Gurney 3 min 40 sec
News from Gloucestershire 1 min 10 sec
No More Songs 1 min 5 sec
Prayer in Middle Age 55 sec
Seal 1 min 24 sec
A Single Tree 1 min 36 sec
The Temperance Billiards Room 1 min 59 sec
Kay, Jackie
Jackie Kay reading her own work:
In my country 1 min 27 sec
Old Tongue 2 min 16 sec
Pride 4 min 48 sec
The Red Graveyard 3 min 4 sec
Somebody Else 1 min 48 sec
From Where It Hurts 5 min 42 sec
Keats, John
John Keats's work read by other poets:
La Belle Dame sans Merci read by Patience Agbabi 2 min 29 sec
Ode to a Nightingale read by Gillian Clarke 6 min 12 sec
‘This living hand, now warm and capable’ read by Lavinia Greenlaw 36 sec
Larkin, Philip
Philip Larkin's work read by other poets:
Aubade read by Blake Morrison 3 min 19 sec
The Trees read by Wendy Cope 51 sec
Lear, Edward
Edward Lear's work read by other poets:
Four Limericks read by Richard Wilbur 1 min 5 sec
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat read by Richard Wilbur 1 min 42 sec
Logue, Christopher
Christopher Logue reading his own work:
Come to the Edge 26 sec
From New Numbers: 'these poems were written in order to change the world…'
3 min 25 sec
Gone Ladies 2 min 42 sec
Headlines 1 min 2 sec
I Shall vote Labour 2 min 8 sec
Madam 42 sec
Professor Tucholsky's Facts 3 min 19 sec
A Singing Prayer 5 min 50 sec
From War Music: All Day Permanent Red 13 min 14 sec
Christopher Logue reading other poets' work:
Drunk as drunk on turpentine by Pablo Neruda 1 min 7 sec
Lithe girl, brown girl by Pablo Neruda 1 min 2 sec
My fingers have crept by Pablo Neruda 36 sec
Sometimes it's like you're dead by Pablo Neruda 28 sec
Steep gloom among pine-trees by Pablo Neruda 1 min 25 sec
That you may hear me by Pablo Neruda 1 min 32 sec
Tonight I write sadly by Pablo Neruda 2 min 21 sec
Wings whirr by moonlight and midnight by Pablo Neruda 1 min 42 sec
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's work read by other poets:
The Fire of Drift-Wood read by Richard Wilbur 2 min 47 sec
A Psalm of Life read by Robert Creeley 1 min 54 sec
Macneice, Louis
Louis Macneice's work read by other poets:
Taxis read by Imtiaz Dharker 1 min 9 sec
Truisms read by P.J. Kavanagh 1 min 52 sec
Marvell, Andrew
Andrew Marvell's work read by other poets:
The Garden read by Fleur Adcock 3 min 28 sec
To His Coy Mistress read by Tony Harrison 2 min 33 sec
McClure, Michael
Michael McClure reading his own work:
Baja – Outside Mexicali 1 min 45 sec
Beginning with a Line by di Prima 4 min 14 sec
Dharma Devotion #31 1 min 12 sec
Dharma Devotion #32 1 min 47 sec
Dharma Devotion #36 1 min 56 sec
Dharma Devotion #7 44 sec
For Robert Creeley 1 min 14 sec
For the Death of 100 Whales 3 min 27 sec
Ghost Tantra #39 1 min 33 sec
Indian 2 min 57 sec
Leadbelly Blues 1 min 21 sec
Ode to Jackson Pollock 6 min 9 sec
Raven's Feather 1 min 45 sec
Vietnam Song 1 min 33 sec
Watching the Vulture 1 min 49 sec
Written After Finding a Dolphin’s Skull 3 min 20 sec
McGough, Roger
Roger McGough reading his own work:
An Apology 1 min 42 sec
Cats Protection League 1 min 26 sec
Cinders 1 min 45 sec
Everyday Eclipses 2 min 34 sec
Georges Perec Reviews The Oxford Book of Twentieth Century Verse 2 min 7 sec
Greek Tragedy 2 min 34 sec
Health Forecast 1 min 45 sec
In Vain 1 min 36 sec
Learning to Read 1 min 6 sec
The Logic of Meteors 2 min 10 sec
Mafia Cats 56 sec
The Map 1 min 55 sec
My Divine Juggler 1 min 22 sec
On the Point of Extinction 1 min 30 sec
Persimmons 1 min 18 sec
Railings 1 min 40 sec
Sad Music 59 sec
The Terrible Outside 2 min 40 sec
Tsutsumu 1 min 48 sec
The Way Things Are 2 min 41 sec
What Does Your Father Do? 1 min 56 sec
Melville, Herman
Herman Melville's work read by other poets:
The House-top read by Susan Howe 2 min 31 sec
The Portent read by Susan Howe 45 sec
Millay, Edna St. Vincent
Edna St. Vincent Millay's work read by other poets:
'Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word…' read by Wendy Cope 1 min 1 sec
Milton, John
John Milton's work read by other poets:
Paradise Lost, opening of Book I read by Richard Wilbur 1 min 48 sec
When I consider how my light is spent read by Robert Creeley 1 min 15 sec
Morgan, Edwin
Edwin Morgan reading his own work:
The Apple's Song 47 sec
At Eighty 55 sec
Columba's Song 39 sec
The Freshet 1 min 16 sec
Glasgow Sonnets i 53 sec
Glasgow Sonnets iii 44 sec
A Gull 1 min 48 sec
Hanging Days 1 min 26 sec
Instructions to an actor 1 min 50 sec
Kore 49 sec
A Little Catechism From The Demon 49 sec
The Mummy 2 min 49 sec
Strawberries 53 sec
Sunset 41 sec
Theory of the Earth 48 sec
Trio 1 min 21 sec
Venice April 1971 1 min 33 sec
When You Go 34 sec
Morrison, Blake
Blake Morrison reading his own work:
From The Ballad of the Yorkshire Ripper 3 min 19 sec
Cuckoo Pint 1 min 27 sec
Dark Glasses 2 min 39 sec
Epithalamion 34 sec
Fuel Debts Enquiry 1 min 38 sec
Gone 1 min 17 sec
The Kiss 50 sec
Madrigalia 2 min 10 sec
Meningococcus 1 min 43 sec
On Sizewell Beach 4 min 2 sec
Pendle Witches 1 min 41 sec
A Provincial Fiction 1 min 6 sec
Somebody Loves Us All 1 min 43 sec
We Won't Get Fooled Again 1 min 22 sec
Blake Morrison reading other poets' work:
Aubade by Philip Larkin 3 min 19 sec
The Clod & the Pebble by William Blake 1 min 4 sec
Digging by Seamus Heaney 2 min 0 sec
Motion, Andrew
Andrew Motion reading his own work:
Anne Frank Huis 3 min 36 sec
A Brendel Doodle 3 min 38 sec
Dead March 4 min 17 sec
The Dog of the Light Brigade 4 min 11 sec
From the Imperial 2 min 46 sec
A Glass of Wine 1 min 51 sec
The Message 3 min 53 sec
On The Table 2 min 22 sec
Serenade 7 min 8 sec
Simple 2 min 16 sec
Star Gazing 1 min 22 sec
To Whom It May Concern 2 min 28 sec
Muldoon, Paul
Paul Muldoon reading his own work:
A Collegelands Catechism 3 min 23 sec
The Loaf 3 min 54 sec
News Headlines from the Homer Noble Farm 4 min 16 sec
Tell 2 min 32 sec
The Turn 5 min 24 sec
When Aifric and I put in at that Little Creek 2 min 2 sec
Murray, Les
Les Murray reading his own work:
The Aboriginal Cricketer, Mid-19th Century 51 sec
An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow 2 min 55 sec
At University 30 sec
The Aztec Revival 1 min 1 sec
Bats’ Ultrasound 1 min 27 sec
The Harleys 54 sec
High Sugar 40 sec
The Holy Show 1 min 18 sec
It Allows a Portrait in Line-Scan at Fifteen 4 min 13 sec
Late Snow in Edinburgh 2 min 26 sec
Late Summer Fires 57 sec
The Meaning of Existence 29 sec
Midnight Lake 58 sec
Midsummer Ice 1 min 4 sec
Morse 1 min 56 sec
The Shield-Scales of Heraldry 2 min 49 sec
The Sleepout 1 min 22 sec
The Smell of Coal Smoke 3 min 20 sec
The Tin Wash Dish 1 min 31 sec
Weights 1 min 26 sec
The Young Woman Visitor 1 min 7 sec
Neruda, Pablo
Pablo Neruda's work read by other poets:
Drunk as drunk on turpentine read by Christopher Logue 1 min 7 sec
Lithe girl, brown girl read by Christopher Logue 1 min 2 sec
My fingers have crept read by Christopher Logue 36 sec
Sometimes it's like you're dead read by Christopher Logue 28 sec
Steep gloom among pine-trees read by Christopher Logue 1 min 25 sec
That you may hear me read by Christopher Logue 1 min 32 sec
Tonight I write sadly read by Christopher Logue 2 min 21 sec
Wings whirr by moonlight and midnight read by Christopher Logue 1 min 42 sec
Olds, Sharon
Sharon Olds reading her own work:
The Elopement 2 min 22 sec
Five Cents a Peek 1 min 56 sec
High School Senior 1 min 57 sec
His Costume 1 min 50 sec
I Go Back to May 1937 1 min 57 sec
Kindergarten Abecedarian 2 min 30 sec
The Last Evening 2 min 53 sec
My Father's Diary 1 min 2 sec
The Race 2 min 50 sec
September 2001 3 min 8 sec
The Summer Camp Bus Pulls Away from the Curb 1 min 26 sec
Where Will Love Go? 2 min 1 sec
Sharon Olds reading other poets' work:
Before the Birth of One of her Children by Anne Bradstreet 2 min 4 sec
Care-charmer sleepe, sonne of the Sable night by Samuel Daniel 1 min 23 sec
‘I died for Beauty – but was scarce’ by Emily Dickinson 45 sec
On my first Sonne by Ben Jonson 1 min 4 sec
‘Safe in their Alabaster Chambers’ by Emily Dickinson 1 min 14 sec
Song of Myself from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman 2 min 51 sec
To his Mistress Going to Bed by John Donne 3 min 17 sec
To S.M., A Young African Painter by Phyllis Wheatley 1 min 23 sec
‘Wild Nights! Wild Nights!’ by Emily Dickinson 40 sec
Owen, Wilfred
Wilfred Owen's work read by other poets:
Dulce et Decorum Est read by Patience Agbabi 1 min 57 sec
Paulin, Tom
Tom Paulin reading his own work:
Drumcree Four 2 min 45 sec
Ethnic 1 min 10 sec
History of the Tin Tent 2 min 6 sec
Klee 2 min 51 sec
Matins 1 min 48 sec
Off the back of a Lorry 3 min 15 sec
The Other England 1 min 18 sec
Palestinian Free State 1 min 48 sec
The Pipe 1 min 44 sec
The Quinn Brothers 2 min 28 sec
Smart Sir Alec 2 min 16 sec
Under the Eyes 2 min 51 sec
Vladimir Illich 3 min 1 sec
The Wind Dog 12 min 19 sec
A Written Answer 2 min 37 sec
Plath, Sylvia
Sylvia Plath's work read by other poets:
Lady Lazarus read by Imtiaz Dharker 3 min 10 sec
Poe, Edgar Allan
Edgar Allan Poe's work read by other poets:
Annabel Lee read by Susan Howe 2 min 19 sec
The Conqueror Worm read by Susan Howe 2 min 10 sec
To Helen read by Richard Wilbur 58 sec
Rakosi, Carl
Carl Rakosi reading his own work:
The Actors 1 min 29 sec
The Adventures of Varese 3 min 12 sec
Dedication 1 min 38 sec
Fiddling a Round 1 min 44 sec
Jewish Wedding Song 2 min 26 sec
Lying in Bed on a Summer Morning 2 min 33 sec
New Orleans Transit Bureau, 1934 4 min 56 sec
The Race 1 min 36 sec
What is Money? 57 sec
Raleigh, Walter
Walter Raleigh's work read by other poets:
'As you came from the Holy Land...' read by Fleur Adcock 2 min 8 sec
Reed, Ishmael
Ishmael Reed reading his own work:
Bitter Chocolate 3 min 14 sec
But Nobody Was There 2 min 3 sec
Dialogue Outside the Lakeside Grocery 2 min 4 sec
For Dancer 26 sec
From Totem to Hip Hop 1 min 37 sec
Home Sweet Earth 1 min 37 sec
Inaugural Day 2 min 53 sec
Invasion 1 min 25 sec
Judas 2 min 59 sec
Lake Bud 57 sec
Life Is A Screwball Comedy 1 min 57 sec
Petite Kid Everett 53 sec
Points of View 38 sec
The Reactionary Poet 3 min 18 sec
Sixth Street Corporate War 1 min 31 sec
'Today I Feel Bearish...' 1 min 21 sec
Turning Pro 1 min 13 sec
Rossetti, Christina
Christina Rossetti's work read by other poets:
In the Bleak Mid-Winter read by Gillian Clarke 1 min 9 sec
Remember read by Patience Agbabi 1 min 0 sec
Rothenberg, Jerome
Jerome Rothenberg reading his own work:
At Tsukiji Market, Tokyo 4 min 16 sec
A Bodhisattva Undoes Hell 3 min 13 sec
Chicago Poem 5 min 0 sec
Dos Oysleydikn (The Emptying) 4 min 34 sec
The Dreamers 3 min 16 sec
A Glass Tube Ecstasy, for Hugo Ball 5 min 9 sec
'I Come into the New World' 2 min 45 sec
A Little Boy Lost 1 min 30 sec
Lorca Variations 21: The Return 3 min 44 sec
The Pirate (I) 2 min 6 sec
Poland/1931: The Wedding 4 min 25 sec
Sassoon, Siegfried
Siegfried Sassoon's work read by other poets:
Everyone Sang read by Imtiaz Dharker 49 sec
Shakespeare, William
William Shakespeare's work read by other poets:
Sonnet CXXIX read by Patience Agbabi 1 min 10 sec
Sonnet LXXIII read by Charles Wright 1 min 8 sec
Sonnet XXIX read by Patience Agbabi 1 min 7 sec
Shelley, P. B.
P. B. Shelley's work read by other poets:
Song to the Men of England read by Benjamin Zephaniah 2 min 10 sec
Sweeney, Matthew
Matthew Sweeney reading his own work:
Animals 57 sec
The Anniversary Choir 2 min 19 sec
Boar 1 min 41 sec
An End 2 min 41 sec
Frog Taming 1 min 45 sec
Guardian of the Women's Loo in Waterloo 3 min 23 sec
The Ice Hotel 2 min 20 sec
Incident in Exeter Station 1 min 31 sec
Princess 1 min 47 sec
Sea Dance 2 min 22 sec
The Tunnel 2 min 4 sec
Urine Therapy 2 min 10 sec
Witness 3 min 5 sec
The Wobble 1 min 35 sec
Matthew Sweeney reading other poets' work:
The Bag of Bee by Robert Herrick 39 sec
The Coming of Good Luck by Robert Herrick 22 sec
Delight in Disorder by Robert Herrick 44 sec
The Garden of Love by William Blake 41 sec
Her Legs by Robert Herrick 17 sec
The Man He Killed by Thomas Hardy 1 min 0 sec
A Poison Tree by William Blake 50 sec
Porphyria's Lover by Robert Browning 2 min 48 sec
A Satirical Elegy. On the Death of a Late Famous General by Jonathan Swift 1
min 38 sec
Snow in the Suburbs by Thomas Hardy 1 min 6 sec
'There's Been a Death in the Opposite House' by Emily Dickinson 1 min 1 sec
To a Gentlewoman objecting to him his gray haries by Robert Herrick 51 sec
The Twa Corbies by Miscellanies and Collections, 1750-1900 1 min 6 sec
The Walk by Thomas Hardy 40 sec
'The Wind Tapped Like a Tired Man' by Emily Dickinson 50 sec
Swift, Jonathan
Jonathan Swift's work read by other poets:
A Satirical Elegy. On the Death of a Late Famous General read by Matthew
Sweeney 1 min 38 sec
Tennyson, Alfred Lord
Alfred Lord Tennyson's work read by other poets:
Break, break, break read by Patience Agbabi 55 sec
Thomas, Edward
Edward Thomas's work read by other poets:
Old Man read by Fleur Adcock 2 min 25 sec
Thomas, R.S.
R.S. Thomas's work read by other poets:
Zero read by Gillian Clarke 1 min 37 sec
Vaughan, Henry
Henry Vaughan's work read by other poets:
'They are all gone into the world of light…' read by P.J. Kavanagh 3 min 27 sec
Wheatley, Phyllis
Phyllis Wheatley's work read by other poets:
On Being Brought from Africa to America read by Patience Agbabi 41 sec
To S.M., A Young African Painter read by Sharon Olds 1 min 23 sec
Whitman, Walt
Walt Whitman's work read by other poets:
Oh Captain! My Captain! read by Robert Creeley 2 min 23 sec
Reconciliation read by Susan Howe 1 min 9 sec
Shut Not Your Doors read by Susan Howe 45 sec
Song of Myself from Leaves of Grass read by Robert Bly 1 min 56 sec
Song of Myself from Leaves of Grass read by Sharon Olds 2 min 51 sec
Song of Myself from Leaves of Grass read by Richard Wilbur 3 min 41 sec
The Wound-Dresser read by Susan Howe 6 min 38 sec
Wilbur, Richard
Richard Wilbur reading his own work:
Advice to a Prophet 2 min 30 sec
A Baroque Wall Fountain 3 min 22 sec
Boy at the Window 1 min 11 sec
A Fable 1 min 25 sec
A Late Aubade 1 min 31 sec
Love Calls Us 2 min 5 sec
Museum Piece 59 sec
Pangloss’s Song 2 min 2 sec
The Pardon 1 min 43 sec
Piccola Commedia 2 min 37 sec
The Prisoner of Zenda 1 min 23 sec
Seed Leaves 1 min 40 sec
This Pleasing Anxious Being 3 min 54 sec
Two Voices in a Meadow 1 min 8 sec
Tywater 1 min 8 sec
The Undead 2 min 37 sec
The Writer 1 min 59 sec
Richard Wilbur reading other poets' work:
Concord Hymn by Ralph Waldo Emerson 1 min 26 sec
Days by Ralph Waldo Emerson 58 sec
The Fire of Drift-Wood by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2 min 47 sec
Four Limericks by Edward Lear 1 min 5 sec
Paradise Lost, opening of Book I by John Milton 1 min 48 sec
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat by Edward Lear 1 min 42 sec
Song of Myself from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman 3 min 41 sec
To Helen by Edgar Allan Poe 58 sec
Richard Wilbur's work read by other poets:
To the Etruscan Poets read by Gillian Clarke 1 min 12 sec
Wordsworth, William
William Wordsworth's work read by other poets:
I wandered lonely as a cloud read by Robert Creeley 1 min 23 sec
Wright, Charles
Charles Wright reading his own work:
Black Sonnet 1 min 25 sec
Charlottesville Nocturne 1 min 26 sec
Homage to Ezra Pound 3 min 22 sec
In Praise of Thomas Hardy 1 min 13 sec
Is 1 min 32 sec
January 36 sec
Portrait of the Artist with Hart Crane 1 min 52 sec
Relics 3 min 3 sec
River Run 1 min 34 sec
Snow 36 sec
Virgo Descending 2 min 52 sec
Why, It's as Pretty as a Picture 2 min 11 sec
The Wind is Calm and Comes from Another World 47 sec
Charles Wright reading other poets' work:
God's Grandeur by Gerard Manley Hopkins 1 min 13 sec
Love by George Herbert 1 min 17 sec
Sonnet LXXIII by William Shakespeare 1 min 8 sec
The Windhover: To Christ Our Lord by Gerard Manley Hopkins 1 min 18 sec
Wright, Judith
Judith Wright's work read by other poets:
Request to a Year read by Fleur Adcock 1 min 16 sec
Wright, Kit
Kit Wright's work read by other poets:
The Orbison Consolations read by Wendy Cope 1 min 11 sec
Yeats, W. B.
W. B. Yeats's work read by other poets:
He reproves the Curlew read by Gillian Clarke 55 sec
Zephaniah, Benjamin
Benjamin Zephaniah reading his own work:
Cybersex 1 min 35 sec
The Death of Joy Gardner 3 min 9 sec
Dis Poetry 1 min 48 sec
The London Breed 1 min 52 sec
Man to Man 1 min 28 sec
Meditate and Communicate 2 min 20 sec
No Problem 1 min 3 sec
Reggae Head 2 min 2 sec
Rong Radio 4 min 24 sec
This be the Worst 1 min 15 sec
What Stephen Lawrence Has Taught Us 3 min 15 sec
White Comedy 1 min 27 sec
Who's Who 26 sec
Benjamin Zephaniah reading other poets' work:
Song to the Men of England by P. B. Shelley 2 min 10 sec
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