01 The Darkling Thrush by Thomas Hardy

04 The Good Morrow by John Donne

06 On the Ning Nang Nong by Spike Milligan

Saturday 21st March. Day 3 of Pandemic Poems

07 To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell / #WorldPoetryDay

Sunday 22nd March 2020. Day 4 of Pandemic Poems

11 Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 by William Wordsworth

19 The Lake Isle Of Innisfree by W B Yeats, read by Emma Fielding

21 The Peace Of Wild Things by Wendell Berry

22 Love After Love by Derek Walcott, read by Inua Ellams

33 Still I Rise by Maya Angelou, read by Adjoa Andoh

39 My Last Duchess by Robert Browning, read by Timothy West

31st March 2020. Day 13 of Pandemic Poems

44 Cargoes by John Masefield

50 Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost, read by Emma Fielding

Friday 3rd April 2020. Day 16 (not 14) of PandemicPoems

51 Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold

Saturday 4th April 2020. Day 17 (not 15) of Pandemic Poems
Illustration by John Tenniel

54 Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll

56 Not Waving But Drowning by Stevie Smith, read by Rebecca Front

64 Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Thursday 9th April 2020. Day 22 (not 20) of Pandemic Poems

69 The Windhover by Gerard Manley Hopkins

74 To A Mouse by Robert Burns, read by Nicholas Ralph

100 The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost, read by Eddie Redmayne

106 Scaffolding by Seamus Heaney, read by Jessica Regan

Thursday 23rd April. Day 36 of Pandemic Poems

For St George's Day

108 The Soldier by Rupert Brooke, read by Paterson Joseph

109 Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare, read by Juliet Stevenson

Friday 1st May 2020. Day 44 of Pandemic Poems

137 London by William Blake

171 Sonnet 43 (How Do I Love Thee?) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, read by Nina Sosonya

186 She Walks In Beauty by George Gordon, Lord Byron

Monday 18th May. Day 61 of Pandemic Poems

193 Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns, read by Nicholas Ralph

Tuesday 30th June 2020. Day 104 of Pandemic Poems

327 Snake by D H Lawrence

Saturday July 4th. Day 108 of Pandemic Poems

For Independence Day

340 Fire And Ice by Robert Frost

Illustration by William Blake, from his Songs of Experience, 1794

Saturday 18th July. Day 118 of Pandemic Poems

378 The Tyger by William Blake

Saturday 18th July. Day 118 of Pandemic Poems

380 Jaguar by Ted Hughes

Wednesday 29th July 2020. Day 133 of Pandemic Poems

410 Dulce et Decorum est by Wilfred Owen

Tuesday August 11th 2020. Day 146 of Pandemic Poems

447 The Skylark by John Clare

Tuesday 22nd September 2020. Day 187 of Pandemic Poems

572 Pangur Bán by Anonymous, read by Jonjo O'Neill

Tuesday 29th September 2020. Day 194 of Pandemic Poems

591 The Famous Tay Whale by William McGonagall, read by Nicholas Ralph

Tuesday 29th September 2020. Day 194 of Pandemic Poems

Illustration by Marguerite Davis, from Tirra Lirra : Rhymes Old and New (1932)

592 Kindness To Animals by Laura E Richards

593 Ant And Elephant by Spike Milligan

Wednesday 30th September 2020. Day 195 of Pandemic Poems

594 Morfudd fel yr Haul (Morfudd like the Sun) by Dafydd Ap Gwilym, read by Ioan Gruffudd

595 Herbst (Autumn) by Rainer Maria Rilke, read by Moritz Kiermeier and Mark Edel-Hunt

596 Den halvfärdiga himlen (The half-finished heaven) by Tomas Tranströmer, read by Michaela Caunter

597 Como quien oye llover (As somebody hears the rain) by Octavio Paz, read by Will Keen

Thursday 1st October September 2020. Day 196 of Pandemic Poems

598 I Have Taught Myself To Live Simply by Anna Akhmatova, read by Tommy Millar and Jane Slavin

Thursday 1st October 2020. Day 196 of Pandemic Poems

Read and reproduced here by kind permission of Johnson and Alcock literary agency

599 Warning by Jenny Joseph, read by Katherine Parkinson

Thursday 1st October 2020. Day 196 of Pandemic Poems

Thank you and good night

600 Autumn Journal XXIV by Louis MacNeice

Actor and sometimes director. Searchable list of poems: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CCjGqAU4uz0dwo7X8e3MBnGorHOT0kYeUDYxLwEKeU4/htmlview#gid=0

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