Library / Valerie Worth --
The word party / Richard Edwards --
Whatif / Shel Silverstein --
What's what / Alastair Reid --
The boyhood of Dracula / Gareth Owen --
Not my day / Russell Hoban --
The pancake collector / Jack Prelutsky --
The frog prince / Phoebe Hesketh --
Alice and the frog / Brian Morse --
A spell for midnight / Hal Summers --
Spell against sorrow / Kathleen Raine --
The listeners / Walter de la Mare --
Welsh incident / Robert Graves --
Dialogue between ghost and priest / Sylvia Plath --
Mary Celeste / Judith Nicholls --
Great black-backed gulls / John Heath-Stubbs --
They call to one another / George Barker --
Everyone sang / Siegfried Sassoon.
animals' arrival / Elizabeth Jennings --
The tickle rhyme / Ian Serraillier --
The example / W.H. Davies --
Considering the snail / Thom Gunn --
The sloth / Theodore Roethke --
Something told the wild geese / Rachel Field --
Don't call alligator long-mouth till you cross river / John Agard --
Trophy / Gillian Clarke --
We are going to see the rabbit / Alan Brownjohn --
Song of the battery hen / Edwin Brock --
The snare / James Stephens --
Cat's funeral / E.V. Rieu --
The thought-fox / Ted Hughes --
Dog body and cat mind / Jenny Joseph --
Poem / William Carlos Williams --
Horses on the Camargue / Roy Campbell --
The donkey / G.K. Chesterton --
Fetching cows / Norman MacCaig --
The flower-fed buffaloes / Vachel Lindsay --
Caring for animals / Jon Silkin.
For a five-year-old / Fleur Adcock --
It was long ago / Eleanor Farjeon --
The game of life / Roy Fuller --
When I was christened / David McCord --
Adventures of Isabel / Ogden Nash --
Father says / Michael Rosen --
Playgrounds / Berlie Doherty --
Where's everybody? / Allan Ahlberg --
The tunnel / Brian Lee --
Tich Miller / Wendy Cope --
Televised / Maya Angelou --
Into my heart / A.E. Housman --
Fern Hill / Dylan Thomas --
By St. Thomas water / Charles Causley --
I wish I were... / Rabindranath Tagore --
Lost days / Stephen Spender --
A child's calendar / George Mackay Brown --
Revelation / Liz Lochhead --
Unrecorded speech / Anna Adams --
A recollection / Frances Cornford --
The lesson / Edward Lucie-Smith --
Follower / Seamus Heaney --
The icing hand / Tony Harrison --
About friends / Brian Jones --
Legend / Judith Wright --
Walking away / C. Day Lewis.
leader / Roger McGough --
The first men on Mercury / Edwin Morgan --
Resurrected / Matthew Sweeney --
Pitying heaven / Michael Baldwin --
About his person / Simon Armitage --
Men of Terry Street / Douglas Dunn --
Every day in every way / Kit Wright --
The embankment / T.E. Hulme --
The man on the desert island / Gerda Mayer --
Not waving but drowning / Stevie Smith --
Why Brownlee left / Paul Muldoon --
Hunger / Laurence Binyon --
O what is that sound / W.H. Auden --
Not my best side / U.A. Fanthorpe --
Old woman / Iain Crichton Smith --
Sensitive, seldom, and sad / Mervyn Peake --
The doomed spaceman / Ted Walker --
A Martian sends a postcard home / Craig Raine.
For the record / Libby Houston --
in Just-spring / e.e. cummings --
April rain song / Langston Hughes --
'There will come soft rains' / Sara Teasdale --
Day of these days / Laurie Lee --
Midsummer, Tobago / Derek Walcott --
Hard frost / Andrew Young --
The midnight skaters / Edmund Blunden --
The more it snows / A.A. Milne --
On a night of snow / Elizabeth Coatsworth --
London snow / Robert Bridges --
When skies are low and days are dark / N.M. Bodecker --
The side way back / Philip Gross --
Southbound on the freeway / May Swenson --
The day the world ended / George MacBeth --
Encounter at St Martin's / Ken Smith --
Mending wall / Robert Frost --
Wall / Norman Nicholson --
The old ships / James Elroy Flecker --
Posted / John Masefield --
The sea / James Reeves --
Look, no hands / James Berry.
Drummer Hodge / Thomas Hardy --
Abbey tomb / Patricia Beer --
The soldier / Rupert Brooke --
Newscast / Ian Hamilton --
My boy Jack / Rudyard Kipling --
As the team's head-brass / Edward Thomas --
Anthem for doomed youth / Wilfred Owen --
Naming of parts / Henry Reed --
Vergissmeinnicht / Keith Douglas --
Your attention please / Peter Porter --
No more Hiroshimas / James Kirkup --
Fifteen million plastic bags / Adrian Mitchell --
In the desert knowing nothing / Helen Dunmore --
Carriers in the Gulf / Alan Ross --
A poem about poems about Vietnam / Jon Stallworthy --
Tiananmen / James Fenton --
The sunlight on the garden / Louis MacNeice.
I so like spring / Charlotte Mew --
The river-merchant's wife : a letter / Ezra Pound --
Like a flame / Grace Nichols --
First love / Brian Patten --
Lipservice / Max Fatchen --
Love poem / Mick Gowar --
Any prince to any princess / Adrian Henri --
A subaltern's love-song / John Betjeman --
Tarantella / Hilaire Belloc --
No sense of direction / Vernon Scannell --
Valentine / Carol Ann Duffy --
The highwayman / Alfred Noyes --
An Arundel tomb / Philip Larken --
He wishes for the cloths of heaven / W.B. Yeats --
Sometimes / Sheenagh Pugh.
