| week |
poem |
May 28, 2007 |
The Garden / by Andrew Marvell / read by Fleur Adcock |
May 21, 2007 |
Boy at the Window / by Richard Wilbur / read by Richard Wilbur |
May 14, 2007 |
For Love / by Robert Creeley / read by Robert Creeley |
May 7, 2007 |
A Singing Prayer / by Christopher Logue / read by Christopher Logue |
Apr 30, 2007 |
This is a Photograph of Me / by Margaret Atwood / read by Margaret Atwood |
Apr 23, 2007 |
Venice April 1971 / by Edwin Morgan / read by Edwin Morgan |
Apr 16, 2007 |
A Surprise in the Peninsula / by Fleur Adcock / read by Fleur Adcock |
Apr 9, 2007 |
Continuous / by Tony Harrison / read by Tony Harrison |
Apr 2, 2007 |
Photographers’ Flowers / by Roy Fisher / read by Roy Fisher |
Mar 26, 2007 |
Watering the Horse / by Robert Bly / read by Robert Bly |
Mar 19, 2007 |
A Story about the Body / by Robert Hass / read by Robert Hass |
Mar 12, 2007 |
Two Voices in a Meadow / by Richard Wilbur / read by Richard Wilbur |
Mar 5, 2007 |
Late Snow in Edinburgh / by Les Murray / read by Les Murray |
Feb 26, 2007 |
Tonight I can write the saddest lines / by Pablo Neruda / read by Christopher Logue |
Feb 19, 2007 |
The Writer / by Richard Wilbur / read by Richard Wilbur |
Feb 12, 2007 |
A Song / by Robert Creeley / read by Robert Creeley |
Feb 5, 2007 |
Flowers / by Wendy Cope / read by Wendy Cope |
Jan 29, 2007 |
All Of Us / by Imtiaz Dharker / read by Imtiaz Dharker |
Jan 22, 2007 |
My Father's Diary / by Sharon Olds / read by Sharon Olds |
Jan 15, 2007 |
Litany / by Billy Collins / read by Billy Collins |
Jan 8, 2007 |
To my Dear and Loving Husband / by Anne Bradstreet / read by Lavinia Greenlaw |
Jan 1, 2007 |
Two Scenes / by John Ashbery / read by John Ashbery |
Dec 25, 2006 |
Where Will Love Go? / by Sharon Olds / read by Sharon Olds |
Dec 18, 2006 |
Love / by Eavan Boland / read by Eavan Boland |
Dec 11, 2006 |
Surprise / by Billy Collins / read by Billy Collins |
Dec 4, 2006 |
Snow in the Suburbs / by Thomas Hardy / read by Matthew Sweeney |
Nov 27, 2006 |
The Young Woman Visitor / by Les A. Murray / read by Les A. Murray |
Nov 20, 2006 |
A Late Aubade / by Richard Wilbur / read by Richard Wilbur |
Nov 13, 2006 |
'I Shall Light a Candle of Understanding...' / by Lorna Goodison / read by Lorna Goodison |
Nov 6, 2006 |
High School Senior / by Sharon Olds / read by Sharon Olds |
Oct 30, 2006 |
Late Summer Fires / by Les A. Murray / read by Les A. Murray |
Oct 23, 2006 |
Names / by Wendy Cope / read by Wendy Cope |
Oct 16, 2006 |
White Birds / by Lorna Goodison / read by Lorna Goodison |
Oct 9, 2006 |
Days / by Ralph Waldo Emerson / read by Richard Wilbur |
Oct 2, 2006 |
Dandelion / by P. J. Kavanagh / read by P. J. Kavanagh |
Sep 25, 2006 |
Homage to Ezra Pound / by Charles Wright / read by Charles Wright |
Sep 18, 2006 |
The world is a beautiful place / by Lawrence Ferlinghetti / read by Lawrence Ferlinghetti |
Sep 11, 2006 |
Yellow Bicycle / by Robert Hass / read by Robert Hass |
Sep 4, 2006 |
Annabel Lee / by Edgar Allan Poe / read by Susan Howe |
Aug 28, 2006 |
The Apple's Song / by Edwin Morgan / read by Edwin Morgan |
Aug 21, 2006 |
A Poison Tree / by William Blake / read by Matthew Sweeney |
Aug 14, 2006 |
The Country / by Billy Collins / read by Billy Collins |
Aug 7, 2006 |
It was not Death, for I stood up / by Emily Dickinson / read by Susan Howe |
Jul 31, 2006 |
Strawberries / by Edwin Morgan / read by Edwin Morgan |
Jul 24, 2006 |
Postcards From God I / by Imtiaz Dharker / read by Imtiaz Dharker |
Jul 17, 2006 |
Batter my heart / by John Donne / read by Imtiaz Dharker |
Jul 10, 2006 |
Are There Not Still Fireflies / by Lawrence Ferlinghetti / read by Lawrence Ferlinghetti |
Jul 3, 2006 |
The Necessity for Irony / by Eavan Boland / read by Eavan Boland |
Jun 26, 2006 |
Love Calls Us / by Richard Wilbur / read by Richard Wilbur |
Jun 19, 2006 |
Love / by Billy Collins / read by Billy Collins |
Jun 12, 2006 |
Neutral Tones / by Thomas Hardy / read by Susan Howe |
Jun 5, 2006 |
The Orange / by Wendy Cope / read by Wendy Cope |
May 29, 2006 |
Charlottesville Nocturne / by Charles Wright / read by Charles Wright |
May 22, 2006 |
Poetry / by Billy Collins / read by Billy Collins |
May 15, 2006 |
Object Lessons / by Eavan Boland / read by Eavan Boland |
May 8, 2006 |
Battle Line / by Imtiaz Dharker / read by Imtiaz Dharker |
May 1, 2006 |
Night Photograph / by Lavinia Greenlaw / read by Lavinia Greenlaw |
Apr 24, 2006 |
The Wind Tapped Like a Tired Man / by Emily Dickinson / read by Matthew Sweeney |
Apr 17, 2006 |
Why They Stopped Singing / by Roy Fisher / read by Roy Fisher |
Apr 10, 2006 |
The Hug / by Thom Gunn / read by Thom Gunn |
Apr 3, 2006 |
To Whom It May Concern / by Andrew Motion / read by Andrew Motion |
Mar 27, 2006 |
A Geography of Poets / by Andrei Codrescu / read by Andrei Codrescu |
Mar 20, 2006 |
The Voice / by Thomas Hardy / read by Robert Creeley |
Mar 13, 2006 |
Flying Above California / by Thom Gunn / read by Thom Gunn |
Mar 6, 2006 |
To my Dear and loving Husband / by Anne Bradstreet / read by Lavinia Greenlaw |
Feb 27, 2006 |
Good Bye / by Robert Creeley / read by Robert Creeley |
Feb 20, 2006 |
Everyone Sang / by Siegfried Sassoon / read by Imtiaz Dharker |
Feb 13, 2006 |
Everyday Eclipses / by Roger McGough / read by Roger McGough |
Feb 6, 2006 |
Delight in Disorder / by Robert Herrick / read by Matthew Sweeney |
Jan 30, 2006 |
Elegy / by Thom Gunn / read by Thom Gunn |
Jan 23, 2006 |
Digging / by Seamus Heaney / read by Blake Morrison |
Jan 16, 2006 |
Driving to Town Late to Mail a Letter / by Robert Bly / read by Robert Bly |
Jan 9, 2006 |
Book Ends II / by Tony Harrison / read by Tony Harrison |
Jan 2, 2006 |
Book Ends I / by Tony Harrison / read by Tony Harrison |
Dec 26, 2005 |
Snow / by Charles Wright / read by Charles Wright |
Dec 19, 2005 |
The Image / by Robert Hass / read by Robert Hass |
Dec 12, 2005 |
Porphyria's Lover / by Robert Browning / read by Matthew Sweeney |
Dec 5, 2005 |
There’s a certain Slant of light / by Emily Dickinson / read by Susan Howe |
Nov 28, 2005 |
Song to the Men of England / by P. B. Shelley / read by Benjamin Zephaniah |
Nov 21, 2005 |
‘Because I could not stop for Death’ / by Emily Dickinson / read by Susan Howe |
Nov 14, 2005 |
'That love is all there is’ / by Emily Dickinson / read by Lavinia Greenlaw |
Nov 7, 2005 |
October Dawn / by Ted Hughes / read by Gillian Clarke |
Oct 31, 2005 |
Shut Not Your Doors / by Walt Whitman / read by Susan Howe |
Oct 24, 2005 |
Virgo Descending / by Charles Wright / read by Charles Wright |
Oct 17, 2005 |
Ode to a Nightingale / by John Keats / read by Gillian Clarke |
Oct 10, 2005 |
The Fire of Drift-Wood / by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / read by Richard Wilbur |
Oct 3, 2005 |
To Helen / by Edgar Allan Poe / read by Richard Wilbur |
Sep 26, 2005 |
Sonnet LXXIII / by William Shakespeare / read by Charles Wright |
Sep 19, 2005 |
Love / by George Herbert / read by Charles Wright |
Sep 12, 2005 |
I wake and feel the fell of dark, not day / by Gerard Manley Hopkins / read by Tony Harrison |
Sep 5, 2005 |
For Meg / by Fleur Adcock / read by Fleur Adcock |
Aug 29, 2005 |
Your Postcards / by Sujata Bhatt / read by Sujata Bhatt |
Aug 22, 2005 |
Red Poppy / by Gillian Clarke / read by Gillian Clarke |
Aug 15, 2005 |
So We'll Go No More A-Roving / by George Gordon Byron / read by Lavinia Greenlaw |
Aug 8, 2005 |
The Black Lace Fan My Mother Gave Me / by Eavan Boland / read by Eavan Boland |
Aug 1, 2005 |
Snowfall in the Afternoon / by Robert Bly / read by Robert Bly |
Jul 25, 2005 |
He reproves the Curlew / by W. B. Yeats / read by Gillian Clarke |
Jul 18, 2005 |
After Drinking All Night with a Friend, We Go Out in a Boat at Dawn to See Who Can Write the Best Poem / by Robert Bly / read by Robert Bly |
Jul 11, 2005 |
Reconciliation / by Walt Whitman / read by Susan Howe |
Jul 4, 2005 |
Poem / by Roy Fisher / read by Roy Fisher |
Jun 27, 2005 |
My letters! All dead paper / by Elizabeth Barrett Browning / read by Lavinia Greenlaw |
Jun 20, 2005 |
The Black Lace Fan my Mother Gave me / by Eavan Boland / read by Eavan Boland |
Jun 13, 2005 |
After Working / by Robert Bly / read by Robert Bly |
Jun 6, 2005 |
The Garden of Love / by William Blake / read by Matthew Sweeney |
May 30, 2005 |
The Weary Blues / by Langston Hughes / read by Nikki Giovanni |
May 23, 2005 |
Meditation at Lagunitas / by Robert Hass / read by Robert Hass |
May 16, 2005 |
Happiness / by Robert Hass / read by Robert Hass |
May 9, 2005 |
A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning / by John Donne / read by Lavinia Greenlaw |
May 2, 2005 |
The Moon / by Robert Creeley / read by Robert Creeley |
Apr 25, 2005 |
Passing an Orchard by Train / by Robert Bly / read by Robert Bly |
Apr 18, 2005 |
Prayer / by Carol Ann Duffy / read by Gillian Clarke |
Apr 11, 2005 |
Tonight I write sadly / by Pablo Neruda / read by Christopher Logue |
Apr 4, 2005 |
Spring Rain / by Robert Hass / read by Robert Hass |
Mar 28, 2005 |
The Rain / by Robert Creeley / read by Robert Creeley |
Mar 21, 2005 |
Considering the Snail / by Thom Gunn / read by Thom Gunn |
Mar 14, 2005 |
What We Lost / by Eavan Boland / read by Eavan Boland |
Mar 7, 2005 |
Blessing / by Imtiaz Dharker / read by Imtiaz Dharker |
Feb 28, 2005 |
O Captain! My Captain! / by Walt Whitman / read by Robert Creeley |
Feb 21, 2005 |
The Rhythm / by Robert Creeley / read by Robert Creeley |
Feb 14, 2005 |
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways / by Elizabeth Barrett Browning / read by Patience Agbabi |
Feb 7, 2005 |
Remember / by Christina Rossetti / read by Patience Agbabi |
Jan 31, 2005 |
Success is counted sweetest / by Emily Dickinson / read by Robert Creeley |
Jan 24, 2005 |
My Last Duchess / by Robert Browning / read by Imtiaz Dharker |
Jan 17, 2005 |
La Belle Dame sans Merci / by John Keats / read by Patience Agbabi |
Jan 10, 2005 |
Dover Beach / by Matthew Arnold / read by Robert Creeley |
Jan 3, 2005 |
Request to a Year / by Judith Wright / read by Fleur Adcock |
Dec 27, 2004 |
A True Hymn / by George Herbert / read by Wendy Cope |
Dec 20, 2004 |
The Christmas Life / by Wendy Cope / read by Wendy Cope |
Dec 13, 2004 |
In the Bleak Mid-Winter / by Christina Rossetti / read by Gillian Clarke |
Dec 6, 2004 |
Ah! Sun-flower / by William Blake / read by Patience Agbabi |
Nov 29, 2004 |
Some Trees / by John Ashbery / read by John Ashbery |
Nov 22, 2004 |
Frost at Midnights / by Samuel Taylor Coleridge / read by Fleur Adcock |
Nov 15, 2004 |
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat / by Edward Lear / read by Richard Wilbur |
Nov 8, 2004 |
A Psalm of Life / by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow / read by Robert Creeley |
Nov 1, 2004 |
Sonnet lxxiii / by William Shakespeare / read by Charles Wright |
Oct 25, 2004 |
On my first Sonne / by Ben Jonson / read by Sharon Olds |
Oct 18, 2004 |
from Paradise Lost / by John Milton / read by Richard Wilbur |
Oct 11, 2004 |
I wandered lonely as a cloud / by William Wordsworth / read by Robert Creeley |
Oct 4, 2004 |
7 God's Grandeur / by Gerard Manley Hopkins / read by Charles Wright |
Sep 27, 2004 |
I Died for Beauty / by Emily Dickinson / read by Sharon Olds; read by Susan Howe |
Sep 20, 2004 |
Sonnet xxix / by William Shakespeare / read by Patience Agbabi |
Sep 13, 2004 |
Break, Break, Break / by Alfred Lord Tennyson / read by Patience Agbabi |
Sep 6, 2004 |
The Windhover / by Gerard Manley Hopkins / read by Charles Wright; read by Imtiaz Dharker |
Aug 30, 2004 |
I Am / by John Clare / read by Lavinia Greenlaw |
Aug 23, 2004 |
A Sad Child / by Margaret Atwood / read by Margaret Atwood |
Aug 16, 2004 |
The Tyger / by William Blake / read by Patience Agbabi |
Aug 9, 2004 |
Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word. / by Edna St. Vincent Millay / read by Wendy Cope |
Aug 2, 2004 |
When I consider how my light is spent / by John Milton / read by Robert Creeley |
Jul 26, 2004 |
She Walks in Beauty / by Lord Byron / read by Robert Creeley |
Jul 19, 2004 |
Safe in Their Alabaster Chambers / by Emily Dickinson / read by Sharon Olds; read by Susan Howe |
Jul 12, 2004 |
Song of Myself / by Walt Whitman / read by Robert Bly; read by Richard Wilbur |
Jul 5, 2004 |
Wild Nights! Wild Nights! / by Emily Dickinson / read by Robert Bly; read by Sharon Olds |
