Sixty Odd Poems

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World War One

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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2.53 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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2.48 This is No Case of Petty Right or Wrong
Edward Thomas, love of your country and standing with both the best and the meanest of your compatriots.
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11. Is My Team Still Ploughing?
... being a response to the Poetry of A. E. Housman
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6. What Tom Butler Saw
... being a reflection on the terrible loss of life in the First World War, or indeed in any war, which I thought suitable for an armistice day when…
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