Explore Poetry
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Poet
Clive James
B. 1939 D. 2019
“The poet is a lifer. Anyone who gets into the game will soon start wishing that there was a version of it with lower stakes, but there isn't.”
Poet
Thom Gunn
B. 1929 D. 2004
It is not so difficult to kindle the poetic fire in the first place as to keep it going, hot and bright, through a whole lifetime. - Thom Gunn
Poem
Aspens
Read by Helen Thomas
Poem
Tall Nettles
Read by Helen Thomas
The Mighty Dead
Sonnet 116
Read by Gillian Clarke
Poem
by Don Paterson
Poem
The Mighty Dead
Tell Me Not Here, It Needs Not Saying
Read by Andrew Motion
by A E Housman
The Mighty Dead
Adlestrop
Read by James Fenton