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The orange

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By Wendy Cope

The poplar field

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By William Cowper

Lo que cuenta / what counts

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By Óscar Cruz

Emergency warning

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By Yrsa Daley-Ward

The listeners

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By Walter de la Mare

“hope” is the thing with feathers

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By Emily Dickinson

A hymn to god the father

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By John Donne

The dissolution

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By John Donne

Tullynoe: tête-à-tête in the parish priest's parlour

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By Paul Durcan

The racist bone

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By Cornelius Eady

From the waste land

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By T. S. Eliot

Our hands like rain

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By Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi

Women and other flowers

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By Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi

I want to be like frank o'hara

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By Martina Evans

Why you cannot touch my hair

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By Eve L. Ewing

What heaney said

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By FeliSpeaks

Poem to be read at the end of a year

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By Bernard Ferguson

On platforms and in plate-glass waiting rooms

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By Leontia Flynn

A christening

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By Tom French

Doña teresa and the chicken

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By Denice Frohman

Puertopia

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By Denice Frohman

Beargrass

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By CMarie Fuhrman

Ecce homo

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By David Gascoyne

Sorrow is not my name

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By Ross Gay

Valediction

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By Gabriel Gbadamosi

Aliens

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By Paul Genega

The forgotten dialect of the heart

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By Jack Gilbert

From the black maria

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By Aracelis Girmay

First memory

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By Louise Glück

The constructed space

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By W. S. Graham

We manage most when we manage small

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By Linda Gregg

The heart of the wood

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By Augusta, Lady Gregory

Stansted to knock, december 21st

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By Vona Groarke

I once was the smallest flame in the fire

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By Gu Cheng

A second opinion

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By Peter Halstead

Common sense

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By Peter Halstead

Glassmaker

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By Peter Halstead

On the merits of literature

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By Peter Halstead

Piano maker

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By Peter Halstead

Rainbow

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By Peter Halstead
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