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Guest poet Lauren Frederick reads two poems

Ivor Winters' 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'

Wilfrid Owen's 'The Parable of the Old man and the Young'

John Dressel's 'Lets Hear It For Goliath'

Gwyn Thomas’ 'You've Lived'.

W.B.Yeats' 'Politics'

Roy Fisher's Birmingham Screwdriver.

W.B.Yeats' 'The Fisherman'

Two Epitaphs for an Army of Mercenaries

from 'Watt' by Samuel Beckett

Rudyard Kipling's 'The Last of the Light Brigade'

Memory, from A Man of Heart.

The Wassail ceremony. Vortigern meets Rowena

Hengist Leaves for Britain. From Liam Guilar's 'A Man of Heart'.

Michael Alexander's 'Beowulf Reduced'

Robert Browning's 'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came'

William Shakespeare's 'Tomorrow and Tomorrow'

Jeremy Hooker's '1st of July 2016

Liam Guilar's 'Akhmatova's requiem'

Rudyard Kipling's 'The Way through the Woods'.

Anna Akhmatova's 'Requiem'

Patrick Kavanagh's 'Lines written on a seat on the Grand Canal, Dublin..'

Taliesin's 'Marwnat Owein'. The lament for Owain son of Urien Rheged.

Alun Lewis' 'The Swan's way'

Liam Guilar's 'These heroics One and Two'.

Dylan Thomas' 'The Force that though the green fuse drives the flower'

Susan Watson's 'Why she began to study the works of Sir Thomas Malory'.

William Blake's 'London'.

Liam Guilar's 'Byron In Venice: The poet in Exile.'

Miroslav Holub's ''A History lesson'

Randall Jarrell's 'The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner'.

Dafydd ap Gwilym's 'Love's affliction'. (Cystudd Cariad)

R.S. Thomas' 'Mice'

Luis Quintais' 'Amphitheatre' (trans Lesley Saunders)

Liam Guilar's 'After the Funerals'

Hafez 'What memories' (trans Dick Davis)

from Prudentius' 'Hamartigenia'. On Free Will.

Jeremy Hooker's 'Novelty'

Jeremy Hooker's 'Gull on a Post'

Lewis Carroll's 'You are Old Father William'

William Wordsworth's 'The world is too much with us'. (Any requests?)

Meirion Jordan's 'Arawn Lord of Annwn'

from Mathew Francis' 'The Mabinogi' Rhiannon's arrival

Dick Davis' 'A Translator's Nightmare'

Liam Guilar's 'Just once'

John Keats' 'When I have fears that I may cease to be'.

George Herbert's 'The Collar'

Alfred De Musset's 'On a Dead Woman' (Sur une Morte)

The Archpoet's confession

Rudyard Kipling's 'If'

Federico Garcia Lorca's 'Somnambule Ballad'

from Christopher Logue's 'War Music' 2. The Death of Patroculus.

from Christopher Logue's 'War Music'. 1 Patroculus pleads with Achilles.

Ovid's 'Pygmalion' trans Arthur Golding

Sappho's 'Fragment 31'

Charles Hamilton Sorley's 'When you see millions of the mouthless dead'

Lewis Carroll's 'The Walrus and the Carpenter'.

Carol Ann Duffy's 'You'

John Keats' 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci'

Thomas E. Spencer's 'How McDougall topped the score'

Alfred Lord Tennyson's 'The Lady of Shalott'

C.P. Cavafy's 'The God Abandons Anthony'

David Jones from 'The Fatigue'

Yevgeny Yevtushenko's 'The City of Yes and the City of No'.

Liam Guilar 's 'Shackleton's Grave.'

R.S.Thomas' 'Bravo'

Sir Thomas Wyatt's 'Whoso List to Hunt'

Sir Walter Ralegh's 'What is our life?'

Robert Graves' 'Ulysses'

W.B.Yeats' 'For Anne Gregory'

Liam Guilar's 'You never asked me for the Moon'

Sylvia Plath's 'The Applicant'

Seamus Heaney's 'Postscript'

Robert Browning 'Porphyria's Lover'

Liam Guilar's 'More than a broken token song'

Basil Bunting's 'Now there's no hope of going back'

John Agard's 'Reporting from the front line of the great Dictionary Disaster'

John Clare's 'I Am'

W.B.Yeats' 'An Irish Airman foresees his death'

Louise MacNeice's 'Thalassa

Liam Guilar's 'The Ugly Little Man's Version'

Percy Shelley's 'England 1819'

Robert Burns' 'A red red Rose'

John Betjeman's 'A Subaltern's love Song'

George Gascoigne's 'Gascoigne's Lullabie'

Robert Graves' 'The Persian Version'

Liam Guilar's 'My Grandmother's story'

Andrew Marvell's 'To His Coy Mistress'

Dylan Thomas' 'Do not go gentle into that good night'

Robert Service's 'The Cremation of Sam McGee'

Louis MacNeice's 'The Introduction'

Basil Bunting's 'What the Chairman Told Tom'.

Andy Brown's 'Casket' from part V 'The High Barrow'

John Milton's 'Paradise Lost' from Book 12, Adam and Eve leave Paradise

John Milton's 'Paradise Lost' from Book Nine, Satan sees Eve.

John Milton's 'Paradise Lost' from Book One

T.S. Eliot's 'Journey of the Magi'

Christina Rossetti's 'A Christmas Carol'

Peeping Tom Speaks from 'Lady Godiva and Me'

from 'Lady Godiva and me' The Modern City