Sixty Odd Poems

Sixty Odd Poems

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2.60 Robert Burns and Juvenile Filth
Cock up your beaver, and sup till you cack your stockins, it's Burns night!
2.59 Taunted by the Ghost of Plato
W.B. Yeats - Is achievement all its cracked up to be?
2.58 Wild West Oscar Wilde
He drank whiskey at the bottom of a mine and kept a lock of his sister's hair all his life.
2.57 The Dreadful Sound of Trump
Did Sir Walter Raleigh predict our current woes?
2.56 Ring Out Wild Bells
Celebrate the New Year with Alfred, Lord Tennyson
2.55 Christmas Day in the Workhouse
Last winter my wife lay dying. Starved in a filthy den...
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2.54 The Mistletoe Bough
A tragic game of hide and seek
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2.53 Welcome to the Machine
The march of technology - Are our creations laughing at us.?
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2.52 Algernon Charles Swinburne
The Poet who Bummed a Monkey
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2.51 Nightingales, Negative Capability and Petula
John Keats was a poet with big ideas - but would he have liked Petula Clark?
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2.50 The Eve of St Agnes by John Keats
In which a man hides in a women's closet and watches her get undressed
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2.49 Women Poets of the First World War
A look at some women who wrote war poetry including one Agatha Christie
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