Poems about the natural world and the elements.
Verses about white flakes from the sky here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/snow

NATURAL LANDSCAPES

Great poems written in times past.

POET PLAYLISTS:
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/auden
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/william-blake
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/gillian-clarke
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/e-e-cummings
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/walter-de-la-mare
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/dickinson
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/hsc-t-s-eliot
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/robert-frost
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/thomas-hardy
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/seamus-heaney
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/ted-hughes
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/keats
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/philip-larkin
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/mary-oliver
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/sylvia-plath
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/william-shakespeare
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/wordsworth
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/w-b-yeats

Classics

رطرطة..

A classic and evocative depiction of spring's abundant yellow blooms.
POET PLAYLIST LINKS:
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/auden
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/william-blake
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/gillian-clarke
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/e-e-cummings
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/dickinson
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/hsc-t-s-eliot
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/robert-frost
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/thomas-hardy
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/ted-hughes
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/keats
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/philip-larkin
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/william-shakespeare
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/wordsworth
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/w-b-yeats

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud ('Daffodils') by William Wordsworth

Housman's wonderful ode to cherry blossom. Part II of 'A Shropshire Lad'.
More natural landscape poems here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/natural-landscapes

Loveliest Of Trees by A.E. Housman

Birdsong in English amidst the bleakness of winter.
POET PLAYLIST LINKS:
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/auden
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/william-blake
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/gillian-clarke
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/e-e-cummings
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/dickinson
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/hsc-t-s-eliot
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/robert-frost
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/thomas-hardy
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/ted-hughes
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/keats
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/philip-larkin
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/william-shakespeare
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/wordsworth
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/w-b-yeats

The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy

Wordsworth's love of the natural world is showcased here.
POET PLAYLIST LINKS:
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/auden
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/william-blake
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/gillian-clarke
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/e-e-cummings
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/dickinson
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/hsc-t-s-eliot
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/robert-frost
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/thomas-hardy
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/ted-hughes
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/keats
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/philip-larkin
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/william-shakespeare
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/wordsworth
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/w-b-yeats

Lines Written in Early Spring by William Wordsworth

For student study and teaching resources. Can also be used as unseen poems for those doing other exam boards.
POET PLAYLIST LINKS:
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/auden
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/william-blake
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/gillian-clarke
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/e-e-cummings
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/dickinson
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/hsc-t-s-eliot
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/robert-frost
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/thomas-hardy
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/ted-hughes
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/keats
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/philip-larkin
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/william-shakespeare
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/wordsworth
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/w-b-yeats

I Started Early, Took My Dog by Emily Dickinson

How thoughts of love can lift someone out of depressive thoughts.
POET PLAYLIST LINKS:
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/auden
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/william-blake
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/gillian-clarke
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/e-e-cummings
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/dickinson
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/hsc-t-s-eliot
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/robert-frost
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/thomas-hardy
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/ted-hughes
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/keats
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/philip-larkin
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/william-shakespeare
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/wordsworth
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/w-b-yeats

Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare

Charles Bukowski reads his poem "don't come round but if you do..." over a loop of Tom Waits' "Wrong Side of the Road"

Charles Bukowski "don't come round but if you do..."/Tom Waits "Wrong Side of the Road"

The most beautiful landscapes are not always the best places to live.
Can also be used as unseen poems for those doing other exam boards.
GCSE POETRY PLAYLISTS:
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/gcse-aqa-power_conflict
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/aqa-gcse-love-relationships
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/gcse-aqa-worlds-lives
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/gcse-edexcel-conflict
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/edexcel-time-and-place
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/gcse-edexcel-relationships
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/gcse-edexcel-belonging
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/international-gcse-edexcel
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/int-gcse-language-poetry-prose
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/gcse-unseen-wjec-eduqas
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/gcse-unseen-ocr
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/gcse-unseen-ccea

Stewart Island by Fleur Adcock

Nature's poet.
POET PLAYLISTS:
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/auden
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/william-blake
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/gillian-clarke
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/e-e-cummings
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/dickinson
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/hsc-t-s-eliot
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/robert-frost
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/thomas-hardy
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/ted-hughes
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/keats
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/philip-larkin
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/mary-oliver
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/sylvia-plath
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/william-shakespeare
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/wordsworth
soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/w-b-yeats

When I am among the Trees by Mary Oliver

The poem which introduced the BBC TV series 'Poets Guide to Britain'.
More landscape poems here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/natural-landscapes

There are Places that Speak by Owen Sheers

The Oak by Alfred Lord Tennyson

More poems about natural landscapes here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/natural-landscapes

Every by Wendy Cope

Charles Bukowski - Alone with everybody

Charles Bukowski - THE MIND / GO ALL THE WAY ᴴᴰ

we had goldfish and they circled around and around
in the bowl on the table near the heavy drapes
covering the picture window and
my mother, always smiling, wanting us all
to be happy, told me, "be happy Henry!"
and she was right: it's better to be happy if you
can
but my father continued to beat her and me 
several times a week while
raging inside his 6-foot-two frame because he couldn't
understand what was attacking him from within. 

my mother, poor fish,
wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a
week, telling me to be happy: "Henry, smile!
why don't you ever smile?" 

and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the saddest smile I ever saw 

one day the goldfish died, all five of them,
they floated on the water, on their sides, their
eyes still open,
and when my father got home he threw them to the cat
there on the kitchen floor and we watched as my mother
smiled

A smile to remember by Charles Bukowski (read by Tom O'Bedlam) / Why So Serious? - The Dark Knight

Charles Bukowski - Bluebird تشارلز بوكوفسكي - طائر أزرق

Ex-BBC Broadcaster readings of poetry & stories + archive radio/audio features. PLEASE SHARE LINKS with others. 
I’m a self-confessed sound, speech and language nerd.

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud ('Daffodils') by William Wordsworth

Anton Jarvis