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Checking Out Me History - John Agard
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Bridge Builder - John Agard
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A Chant Against Death - Mervyn Morris
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of DeWitt Williams on his way to the Lincoln Cemetery - Gwendolyn Brooks
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Tarantella - Hilaire Belloc
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The Winged Horse - Hilaire Belloc
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The Loch Ness Monster’s Song - Edwin Morgan
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Come the Morning - Ian Duhig
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Riding Down to Boxland - Michael Rosen
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Variation on an Old Rhyme - John Mole
Interview

In this interview Adrian Mitchell, the UK's alternative Poet Laureate makes a passionate argument for the necessity of poetry. He also discusses how he gets ideas for his poems, where he writes them and for whom, (and why you should be careful what you say on the bus!)

Guided Tour

“I’ve avoided poems that other writers here have recommended, but which otherwise would certainly have been on my list (such as Richard Wilbur’s superb ‘A Barred Owl’, chosen by Andrew Motion). There are also some astonishing recordings in the historical…

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