Poetry Marathon Starting Friday 30 March 2012 at 11
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Poetry Marathon Starting Friday 30 March 2012 at 11.00 a.m. Carol Ann Duffy The Laughter of Stafford girls High Alfred Lord Tennyson Crossing the Bar David Simpson Dunkeld Cathedral John Masefield The Seekers Anthony Garratt Marion William Shakespeare Sonnets 90-92 William Blake Auguries of Innocence David Gill Gloucester in the negen Carline Gill 1st May: red kite at strata Florida William Shakespeare Sonnets 1 & 2 John Masefield Sea Fever Hilaire Belloc The Microbe John Masefield Lines on the Coronation of our Gracious Sovereign Christala Rosina Contrasts Giles Fletcher Palm Sunday Good Friday 12 Noon Isaac Watts I’ll Praise my Maker Doris Pountney Walter De La Mare Sir Walter Ralegh As you came from the Holy Land John Keats Ode to Autumn Hugh MacDiarmid Scotland small? John Clare Gypsies Psalm 121 David Scott One Young Deer Lord Tennyson The Lotos-Eaters William Shakespeare Sonnets 76-80 John Keats There was a naughty boy Edward Lear There was on old man with a beard There was an old man in a tree William Shakespeare Sonnets 84-89 Philip Larkin Nothing to be said Dylan Thomas Do not go gentle into that good night Dominic Holmes East Coast Weathering John Clare Gypsy Camp G.M. Hopkins The Windhover William Shakespeare From the Tempest Marianne Moore Poetry Billy Collins Forgetfulness Elizabeth Bishop Villanelle William Shakespeare Sonnets 74 and 75 Jenny Jospeh Warning William Henry Davis Leisure R.S. Thomas The Kingdom Lawrence Binyon For the Fallen G.M. Hopkins Pied Beauty Edward Lear The Owl and the Pussycat Sarojini Naidu To a Buddha Pam Ayres Will I have to be sexy at 60? Robert Browning How they brought the good news from Ghent to Aix Sellar and Yeatman Horse Nonsense Edwin Muir The Transfiguration 1.00 p.m. Michael Symmons Roberts Annunciation at the Hookses Alex Dexter Mills Hurry Up! Hilaire Belloc Charles Augustus Fortiscue Paul Griffin The Anger Sir Walter Scott Lochinva David Scott Churchyard under Snow Dorothy Parker One perfect Rose Carol Ann Duffy River John Masefield Our Gracious Sovereign Robert Browning Pheidippides Philip Larkin An Arundel Tomb Muriel Stuart The Seed Shop Judith Viorst Remembrance of Christmas Past Emma Kendall Lea Feathers in a Jar T.S. Eliot Ash Wednesday 19.30 part 6 Robert Louis Stephenson My shadow Seamus Heaney Blackberry picking W.H. Auden Musee des beaux Arts Philip Callow A Frosty Night Mary Oliver Wild Gees Lingering in Happiness Nancy Houson What my Father Said Margaret Cropper The Music of Iona Elizabeth J. Oakley What love might become John Betjeman In Westminster Abbey U.A. Fanthorpe BC - AD Edward Thomas Adelstrop V.R. (Bunny) Lang To a Gossip William Shakespeare Sonnets 71-73 Anon The Dean takes to the Air William Shakespeare Sonnets 69 & 70 Sonnets 25 & 26 Sonnets 27 & 28 W.H. Auden Tell me the truth about life 2.00 p.m. R.S. Thomas Bright Field Beryl Johnson Flash of Blue U.A. Fanthorpe Bird Psalm Jenny Joseph Warning Oliver Goldsmith The deserted village – extracts Thomas Hardy The Ruined Maid Naomi Young Dreams of flying People’s Eyes Paul Griffin Good Friday Kenneth Grahame Ducks’ Ditty John Clare A Vision William Shakespeare Sonnets 65-68 Barbara Bonner –Morgan Lambs on the Hillside Women cleaners at the Bank Elizabeth Cook A Child’s Grave in Volos: 450bc William Shakespeare Sonnets 61-64 T.S. Eliot Growl Tigers last stand T.S. Eliot The Wasteland 3.00 p.m. Anon O western wind John Donne No Man is an Island Rupert Brook The Soldier Nick Ward Where have all the sparrows gone John Masefield Cargoes Mary Warren Smith Song for Good Friday George Herbert Love Edward Thomas Roads T.S. Eliot Macavity the Mystery Cat Sarojini Naidu The Souls Prayer William Shakespeare Sonnets 43-45 William Shakespeare Sonnets 35-42 Sonnets 59 & 60 Psalm 139 Alan Meilland A Rose for Peace Elizabeth Cook Bowl Stevie Smith Not Waving but Drowning Helen Ransone Bourne Spring Gold John Gillespie Magee High Flight Jasper Miles Cheers Lawrence Binyon They went with songs to battle Michael Woodward The Ring For my wife Now Tony Bland The Dawn Chorus Lee Hunt The Fish the Man and the spirit Brenda Leather Tara-Mam John Milton Extracts from Paradise Lost G.M. Hopkins Spring R.S. Thomas The Bright Field William Wordsworth Daffodils Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Wreck of the Hesperus Thomas Hardy Ice on the Highway Fred Hedley Life Story Geoffrey Hill Genesis 4.00 p.m. Ralph Waldo Emmerson To laugh often and much William Blake Garden of Love G. m. Manly Hopkins As Kingfishers catch fire Sir John Tavernor Song for Athene Edward Lear The Owl and the Pussycat William Wordsworth Tintern Abbey T.S. Eliot The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock Private S. Baldrick German Guns Maria Apichella Fire John Betjeman In Westminster Abbey Carol Ann Duffy Prayer Eizabeth Cook Thaw Edward Thomas Addlesthrop William Shakespeare Sonnet 116 John Keats Ode to Autumn Edwin Muir The confirmation One foot in Eden William Shakespeare Sonnets 54-56 George Herbert The Call John Betjeman The Last Laugh Lord Tennyson Morte d’Arthur John Bunyon He that is down? 5.00 p.m. Elizabeth Brackon Lamp Containing Bees wax T.S. Eliot The hippopotamus Thomas Hardy Revulsion Carol Ann Duffy Prayer John Clare A Sunday with Shepherds and Herd boys Neil Moss A time for reflection Carol Ann Duffy Premonitions Psalm 23 John Milton Paradise Lost – extracts W.B. Yates He wishes for the cloths of heaven Les Murray An immortal John Donne A prayer Kipling The Beginnings D.H. Lawrence Almond Blossoms John Gillespie Magee High Flight Albert Radcliffe His hospital visitor brought grapes A.B. Patterson Clancy of the overflow A.B. Patterson The man from snowy river G.M. Hopkins Henry Purcell Edward Thomas The path Edwin Muir The killing John Keats On first looking into Chapman’s Homer Lord Byron An extract from Don Juan Richard Gadsby Together Lotte Kramer Final solution Carol Ann Duffy Words, wide night Shakespeare Sonnets 7-9 Sonnets 10-12 T. Elliott Mr Mistoffelees Sonnets 13 & 14 6.00 p.m. R.S.Thomas The answer Rudyard Kipling Sestina of the Tramp-Royal Chrissie Gittins The very fortunate frog U.E. Fanthorpe VC & AD Siegfried Sassoon How to die Shakespeare Sonnets 15 & 16 Sonnets 46-49 John Masefield Sea Fever Paul the Deacon at Monte Cassino Translation - Manuscript of Monte Cassino David Scott The Surplice Boileau The Kyle of Tongue Rudyard Kipling Edi’s Service (AD 687) G.M. Hopkins As Kingfishers catch fire Lewis Carol Jabberwocky Seamus Heaney The Conway Stewart William Blake A tear is an intellectual thing Shakespeare Sonnet 57 William Blake The Garden of Love Shakespeare Sonnet 34-36 Sonnet 39-41 Henry Longfellow Osseo and Oweenee Shakespeare Sonnets 19 & 20 Shakespeare Sonnets 140-154 7.00 p.m. Sonnets 17 * 18 Sonnets 50-53 Stefan Oliver To Bethlehem If you are still alive in half an hour Walter de la Mare The Listeners Samuel Taylor Coleridge Kubla Khan G.M. Hopkins Pied Beauty Christopher Logue London airport Wilfred Owens Strange Meeting Edward Lear Yonglhy-Bonglhy-bo Judith Wright Bullocky Robert Williams Buchanan Judas Iscariot William Rogers Gethsemane Elizabeth Barratt Browning How do I love thee Roger Magogh First day at School George Herbert The Pulley R.S. Thomas The Moor Robert Burns A Red Red Rose Roger Gough I am not sleeping G.M. Hopkins Nothing is so beautiful as spring G.J. Chesterton The Donkey John Donne A Hymne to Christ George Herbert Love made me welcome Shakespeare Sonnets 29 & 30 Sonnets 31-33 Edward Thomas Roads Shakespeare Sonnets 23 & 24 8.00 p.m. Shakespeare Sonnets 8 and 128 Sonnets 3 to 6 Sarojini Naidu Autumn Song T.S. Eliot The 4 Quartets 9.00 p.m. Edmund Spenser Extracts from the Faerie Queene Rudyard Kipling Pilgrims Way John Masefield Sea Fever Thomas Gray Eulogy written in a country churchyard Mary Bridget Judge Petrified Spike Milligan I must go down to the sea again A silly poem G.M. Hopkins Inversnaid Lord Byron Mazeppa’s Ride Lord Tennyson From the Princess 10.00 p.m. Meg Clibbon The Cathedral Tower Stevie Smith The Galloping cat Walter de la Mare Listeners U.A. Fanthorpe The sheepdog John Masefield Sea Fever Siegfried Sassoon Everyone Sang John Donne Holy Sonnet Number 10 G.M. Hopkins I wake and feel the fell God’s grandeur G.M. Hopkins Pied Beauty Christina Rossetti Up Hill Shakespeare Sonnets 81-83 Samuel Taylor Coleridge Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner 11.00 p.m. Joan Livermore Women’s Philosophy Sydney Godolphin Lord when the wise men came from afar Julia Gooch Magnificat Evensong uncut Anon Do not stand at my grave and weep Thomas Gray Eulogy written in a country churchyard Lord Byron She walks in beauty Walter de la Mare Silver W.H. Auden 12 Songs – No 9. Dylan Thomas First Voice Christian Morgenstern Night ode of the fish Thomas Hardy Under the waterfall Anne Bradstreet Upon my dear and loving husband James Thomas East Wise men seeking Jesus William Henry Davies Leisure John Betjeman Inland waterway Walter de la Mare Silver Shakespeare Duke of Illyria, orsino John Donne Batter my heart Charles Taylor Into your hands G.M. Hopkins Spring Alexander Pope Essay on criticism John Keats The Eve of St Agnes Stephen Fry Sapphic Ode Midnight VSO Volunteer in Bangladesh He came himself Julia Darling Dreaming of frocks Anon Ceremony for completing a poetry reading William Blake Orgeries of innocence Kathleen Lee Egdon Heath Adrienne Rich Aunt Jennifer’s tigers Jenny Joseph Warning William Wordsworth Daffodils Paul Mills A common task D.M. Black Meditation on a line from Shakespeare’s Sonnet 31 Charles Causley Eden Rock
