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The Poetry Exchange — 100 episodes
Poems with Friends: Charlie Beaumont
Special episode: Poems as Friends at Latitude Festival
Poems with Friends: Sally Anglesea
Poems with Friends: Alison McManus
100. Having a Coke with You by Frank O'Hara - A Friend to Michael Shaeffer
99. On Wenlock Edge by A. E. Housman - A Friend to Serena Trowbridge
98. White Egrets (I) by Derek Walcott - A Friend to Nick Makoha
97. Morning by Frank O'Hara - A Friend to Tamar Yoseloff
96. A Kite for Aibhín by Seamus Heaney - A Friend to Fiona
95. The World as Meditation by Wallace Stevens - A Friend to David
94. Poems as Friends at Norfolk & Norwich Festival
93. The Envoy of Mr. Cogito by Zbigniew Herbert - A Friend to Nick Laird
92. Meeting Point by Louis MacNeice - A Friend to Imtiaz Dharker
91. The Domestic Science of Sunday Dinner by Lorna Goodison - A Friend to Malika Booker
90. Dis Poetry by Benjamin Zephaniah - A Friend to Roy McFarlane
89. The Thrush by Edward Thomas - A Friend to Simon Crompton
88. REVISITED: Love by George Herbert - A Friend to Andrew Scott
87. Ceasefire by Michael Longley - A Friend to Jacqueline Saphra
86. The Daughter by Carmen Giménez - A Friend to Gita Ralleigh
85. Timothy Winters by Charles Causley - A Friend to Tim Kiely
84. Little Champion by Tony Hoagland - A Friend to Michael Mark
83. You Don't Know What Love Is by Kim Addonizio - A Friend to Salena Godden
E82. What Survives by Rainer Maria Rilke - A Friend to Lois P. Jones
81. My Dark Horses by Jodie Hollander - A Friend to Rosie Garland
80. REVISITED: Remember by Joy Harjo - A Friend to Rachel Eliza Griffiths
79. REVISITED: Poem (Lana Turner Has Collapsed) by Frank O'Hara - A Friend to Harry
78. REVISITED: The force that through the green fuse drives the flower by Dylan Thomas - A Friend to Angela
77. Grief by Matthew Dickman - A Friend to Rowena Knight
76. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot - A Friend To Ella Frears
75. Acquainted with the Night by Robert Frost - A Friend to Glyn Maxwell
74. Poem in October by Dylan Thomas - A Friend to Alex
73. SkyLines Festival featuring Roz Goddard & Rishi Dastidar
72. Truth by Jean Binta Breeze - A Friend to Sue Brown
71. Love Song For Words by Nazik al-Mala'ika - A Friend to Maryam
70. On Marriage by Kahlil Gibran - A Friend to India & Samira
69. Fisherman by Dennis Scott - A Friend to Michael
68. The Lake Isle of Innisfree - A Friend to Sue
67. The Way Home By Liz Berry - A Friend To Casey Bailey
66. On The Departure Platform - A Friend to Gill
65. Song Of Myself by Walt Whitman - A Friend To Andrea
64. Kubla Khan by Coleridge - A Friend To Gregory Leadbetter
63. Old Mary by Gwendolyn Brooks - A Friend to Pete
62. Eve Remembering by Toni Morrison - A Friend to Maria
61. The Republic of Motherhood by Liz Berry - A Friend to Ana
60. From Blossoms by Li-Young Lee - A Friend to Jessica
59. Good Lord The Light by Christian Wiman - A Friend to Krista Tippett
58. The Horses by Ted Hughes - A Friend to Lewi
57. Still I Rise by Maya Angelou - A Friend to Fehmida
56. Aubade by Philip Larkin - A Friend to Tom
55. Mushrooms by Sylvia Plath - A Friend to Jenny
54. A Recovered Memory of Water by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill - A Friend to Pádraig Ó Tuama
53. A Short Story of Falling by Alice Oswald - A Friend to Charlie
52. Ae Fond Kiss by Robert Burns and I Am by John Clare - Friends to Brian Cox
51. Spring and Fall By Gerard Manley Hopkins - A Friend To Vahni Capildeo
50. "Hope" is the thing with feathers by Emily Dickinson - A Friend to Lucy
49. Vers De Société by Philip Larkin - A Friend to Stephen
48. Fern Hill by Dylan Thomas - A Friend to Adrian
47. Remember By Joy Harjo - A Friend To Rachel Eliza Griffiths
46. 'Then or Now' - Adrienne Rich - a poem-score for Ballet Black
45. Ashes Of Life By Edna St. Vincent Millay - A Friend To Laura
44. The Hug by Thom Gunn - A Friend to Sam
43. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost - A Friend to Victoria
42. The Fury Of Overshoes by Anne Sexton - A Friend to Laura
41. Seachange by Kate Genevieve - A Friend to Prasanna
40. The Death by Heroin of Sid Vicious by Paul Durcan - A Friend to John
39. De Ceder / The Cedar by Han G. Hoekstra - A Friend to Alida
38. Special Episode - Latitude 2019 with Nadine Shah and Hannah Jane Walker
37. O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman - A Friend to Farah
36. The Guest House by Rumi - A Friend to Yasmin
35. Mathios Paskalis Among The Roses by George Seferis - A Friend to John
34. Of Mutability by Jo Shapcott - A Friend To Hannah
33. The force that through the green fuse drives the flower by Dylan Thomas - A Friend To Angela
32. Barcarole by Pablo Neruda - translated by Robert Hass - A Friend To Mark
31. Dich / You by Erich Fried - A Friend To Katharine
30. This Be The Verse by Philip Larkin - A Friend to Hannah
29. Last Post By Carol Ann Duffy - A Friend To Jackie
28. The Negro Speaks Of Rivers by Langston Hughes - A Friend to Roy McFarlane
27. Continuous by Tony Harrison - A Friend to Peter
26. The Lake Isle Of Innisfree by W. B. Yeats - A Friend To Tom
25. How The World Gets Bigger by Alyson Hallett - A Friend to Roxy
24. Proem by Martin Carter - A Friend to Nicholas Laughlin
23. A Kite For Aibhín By Seamus Heaney - A Friend to Fiona
22. Love by George Herbert - A Friend To Andrew Scott
21. How Surely Gravity's Law by Rainer Maria Rilke - A Friend to Lisa
20. Return By C. P. Cavafy - A Friend To John Davis
19. This Poem by Salena Godden - A Friend to Dan Simpson
18. Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen - A Friend to Joolz
17. 5AM by Roxy Dunn - A Friend to Paterson Joseph
16. The Island By A.A. Milne - A Friend To Liis
15. Love by George Herbert - A Friend To Jonathan
14. Turns by Tony Harrison - A Friend to Maxine Peake
13. Poem (Lana Turner Has Collapsed) by Frank O'Hara - A Friend to Harry Jelly
12. On Children (from 'The Prophet') by Kahlil Gibran - A Friend to Hafsah Aneela Bashir
11. For Sigrid (from ‘The Bounty’) by Derek Walcott - A Friend to Mark
10. Restlessness by D.H. Lawrence - A Friend to Alison
9. The Lake Isle of Innisfree by W.B. Yeats - A Friend to Martin
8. The moth by Miroslav Holub - A Friend to Claudia
7. Ars Poetica #100: I Believe by Elizabeth Alexander - A Friend to John
6. Compost by Dan Chelotti - A Friend to Alice
5. Prayer by Carol Ann Duffy - A Friend to Tricia