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First Snow

by John Mole

1:16 listening time

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Fred Sedgwick

You’ll find some thoughtful and often very atmospheric poems dealing with big themes – ...

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Grace Nichols

Grace’s poems are full of the sounds and stories of Guyana, the Caribbean country where ...

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House of Air

by Philip Gross

1:06 listening time

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I’M A CANOE

by Roger Stevens

2:37 listening time

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Ian McMillan

Ian McMillan (b. 1956) is one of the UK's best known contemporary poets. Aside from ...

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IF LONESOME WAS A POT OF GOLD

by Dennis Lee

0:36 listening time

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James Carter

James’s poems are full of daydreams and music. They’re often highly playful but beneath ...

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Joan Poulson

Although many of Joan’s poems are in free verse, you can hear that they still use ...

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John Agard

John is one of the most electrifying readers around, and the energy and dazzle he ...

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John Foster

You will hear that John reads with quite a serious tone, even for the humorous poems – ...

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John Hegley

The writer and performer John Hegley has been described as the Spike Milligan for our ...

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