Session 9

Are lyrics poetry? Songs and poems began life as inseparable twins, but they are now - for the most part - thoroughly estranged . . . .

Session Seven

Poems about Animals

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Ted Hughes reads The Thought Fox

Session Six

Some poems about people to look at

WH Auden, Epitaph on a Tyrant

Norman MacCaig Aunt Julia

Fay Hart I Love Drunks

C.P. Cavafy An Old Man

George Barker To My Mother

Jackie Kay Brendon Gallacher