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

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A sweltering experience.
More poems of summer here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/summer

A Hot Day by A.S.J. Tessimond

An homage to the soil beneath our feet.
More poems of the natural environment here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/natural-landscapes

Ode To Dirt by Sharon Olds

HSC POETRY PLAYLIST LINKS:
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Description Of A Walk by Robert Gray

From his epic poem 'Child Harold's Pilgrimage' Canto IV Stanzas 178-180
Natural landscape poems here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/natural-landscapes

There Is A Pleasure In The Pathless Woods by Lord Byron

This poem of nature's awakening featured in Ray Bradbury's science fiction short story of the same name.
More poems of spring here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/spring

There Will Come Soft Rains by Sara Teasdale

GCSE POETRY PLAYLISTS:
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Clear and Gentle Stream by Robert Bridges

Mild the Mist Upon the Hill by Emily Bronte

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

Patrolling Barnegat by Walt Whitman

Glorious depiction of a Welsh rural setting when DT was a boy.
More poems of natural landscapes here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/natural-landscapes

Fern Hill by Dylan Thomas

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

An evocation of a wet day in nature during the 4th month.
More poems of spring here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/spring

In  April by Rainer Maria Rilke

Wordsworth's love of the natural world is showcased here.
POET PLAYLIST LINKS:
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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

Frost's simple but perceptive take on the transitory nature of life evoked through trees.
POET PLAYLIST LINKS:
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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

Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost

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:
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Stewart Island by Fleur Adcock

The dark of the night will not remain.
More natural landscape poems here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/natural-landscapes

The Night Will Never Stay by Eleanor Farjeon

A beautiful description of running water with Scottish dialect words.
More poems of natural landscapes here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/natural-landscapes

Inversnaid by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Nature's poet.
POET PLAYLISTS:
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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

From the 'Peacock Pie' anthology.
More thoughtful poems here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/reflections-on-life

Silver by Walter de la Mare

Reed Flute Cave by Oodgeroo Noonuccal

Enjoy listening to my readings of poetry & stories + archive radio/audio features. I’m an ex-BBC broadcaster and self-confessed sound, speech and language nerd.

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Anton Jarvis