Bloom Collection in the Poetry Archive
Welcome to the Exeter Bloom Collection 2021. This collection of poems was specially selected for Bloom: Exeter Phoenix’s Festival of Mental Health Awareness. Poetry has a unique ability to give words to our feelings and emotions, and to act as an emollient in difficult times. This collection features poems chosen for their power to speak to the personal experiences of Bloom festival attendees along the theme of nature and the environment.
Find out more about Bloom here.
A Shropshire Lad II: Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Read by Alan Brownjohn
by A E Housman
A Shropshire Lad II: Loveliest of trees, the cherry now - A E Housman - Read by Alan Brownjohn
A Subaltern’s Love Song - John Betjeman
The Rolling English Road
Read by Daljit Nagra
The Rolling English Road - G. K. Chesterton - Read by Daljit Nagra
Adlestrop
Read by James Fenton
Adlestrop - Edward Thomas - Read by James Fenton
She Walks in Beauty
Read by Jude Law
by Lord Byron