Sixty Odd Poems

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2.38 In My Room
Fame, Emily Dickinson, David Bowie and the Beach Boys
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2.37 A Journey to Spain with a Snowflake
An impending holiday and a look at a poet, an execution and an activist from the turn of the 19th Century.
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2.36 Unrequited Love and Suicide
A humorous poem by William Makepeace Thackery
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2.35 The Missing Link
The Piltdown Man - Bringing the Cradle of Civilisation to the Home Counties.
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July 2025

2.34 The Erotic Golden Treasury
After his Golden Treasury of Poetry, Untermeyer decided to get a little raunchy.
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2.33 Fish, Flies, Ants and Crunching Cows
The American Golden Treasury
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2.32 Poems that my Teacher Read Out Loud
More Poetry from a 1970s classroom.
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2.31 Palgrave's Treasury for the Kiddies
Poetry for children, mostly about death.
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June 2025

2.30 Palgrave's Golden Treasury
Arguably the most famous poetry collection in the whole of English Literature, Created by a fuddy-duddy victorian academic who was (at least in my…
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2.29 The Poet and the Drowned Cat
What advice could the poet who penned "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" have possibly given to a disgraced 70s pop star?
2.28 The Poet Who Looked Into the Future
James Elroy Flecker, an Edwardian writer who brought his love of Science Fiction to poetry.
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2.27 The Poet With the Tiny Little Brain
Lord Byron had one twice the size of his - but as we all know - it's not all about size, Its how you use it that counts.
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