Favourite poems

‘Under Which Lyre’ by Auden

‘At the Fishhouses’ by Bishop

‘Lament for the Makaris’ by Dunbar

‘Prayer Before Birth’ by MacNeice

‘Bavarian Gentians’ by Lawrence

‘A Shropshire Lad’ by Housman

‘Ben Dorain’ by Crichton Smith

‘The Back Country’ by Louis Jenkins

‘Aubade’ by Larkin

‘French and English’ by Leonard Cohen

‘Boast of Quietness’ by Borges

‘Sonet of Venus and Cupid’ by Boyd

‘Job 3: 3-26

‘Tom o Bedlam’s Song’

‘Death be not proud’ by Donne

‘Incompatibilities’ by Ted Hughes

‘Listen, Put on Morning’ by WS Graham

‘I Want to Be the One’ by Zack Davis

‘Artificial Intelligence (To G.P.S.)’ by Adrienne Rich

‘Psalm 88’ by the psalmist

‘Not our good luck’ by Robinson Jeffers

‘No Road’ by Larkin

‘A Private Bottling’ by Don Paterson

‘Crossing the Border’ by Maccaig

‘Romance Sonámbulo’ by Lorca

‘tallahassee’ by John Darnielle

‘All Hail West Texas’ by John Darnielle

‘Under Milk Wood’ by Dylan Thomas

‘The Hospital’ by Pat Kavanaugh

‘Dover Beach’ by Matthew Arnold

‘Autobiography of My Alter Ego’ by Yusef Komunyakaa

‘A footnote to weather forecasts’ by Iosif Brodsky

‘In memoriam’ by Iosif Brodsky

‘Sextet’ by Iosif Brodsky

‘A part of speech’ by Iosif Brodsky

‘The Flooers o’ the Forest’ by Jean

‘The force that through the green fuse drives the flower’ by Dylan Thomas

‘Man Carrying Thing’ by Wallace Stevens

‘A Vision of a Wrangler’ by James Clerk Maxwell

‘Paradise Lost 221-270’ by Milton

‘New Year Letter’ by Auden

‘I Am!’ by John Clare

‘Reflections’ by R.S. Thomas

‘Re-emerge The Exact Same As You Are’ by John Morrice

‘A good list’ by Brad Leithauser

‘autopsychography’ by Pessoa

‘Prufrock’ by Eliot

‘Under One Small Star’ by Szymborska

‘Night Call, Collect’ by Ray Bradbury

‘meaning’ by Czeslaw Milosz

‘A.E.H.’ by Kingsley Amis

‘Almost No Memory’ by Lydia Davis

‘Aurora Leigh’ by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

‘Israel’ by Leonard Cohen

‘A Working Man’ by Leonard Cohen

‘Queen Victoria and Me’ by Leonard Cohen

‘Montreal’ by Leonard Cohen

‘Hydra 1960’ by Leonard Cohen

‘A Cross Didn’t Fall on Me’ by Leonard Cohen

‘Disguises’ by Leonard Cohen

‘It’s Probably Spring’ by Leonard Cohen

‘As If It Were’ by Nathaniel Mackey

‘A Man in Assynt’ by Maccaig

‘For the Motherboard’ by Vanessa Hodgkinson

‘To Be of Use’ by Marge Piercy

‘Lines written on windows of the Globe Tavern, Dumfries’ by Burns

‘Back-Green Odyssey’ by Alastair Mackie

‘Scotland’ Alastair Reid

‘Archaic Torso of Apollo’ by Rilke

‘Statement of Teaching Philosophy’ by Keith Leonard

‘Cartographies of Silence’ by Adrienne Rich

‘Love Poem For Natalie ‘Tusja’ Beridze’ by Don Paterson

‘In California’ by Joanna Newsom

‘Autumn’ by Joanna Newsom

‘An Arundel Tomb’ by Philip Larkin

‘Sad Steps’ by Philip Larkin

‘Summers and Springs’ by Jaan Kaplinski

‘The Whitsun Weddings’ by Philip Larkin

‘Crossing the Border’ by Norman MacCaig

‘Unit of Measure’ by Sandra Beasley

‘The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’ by Matthew Tuckner

‘The South Mountains’ by Han Yu (韓愈)

‘An Arrowhead from the Ancient Battlefield of Changping’ by Li He (李賀)

‘Ugly Slave’ by Xin Qiji (辛棄疾))

‘Reverie’ by Li Qingzhao (李清照)

‘Hunting in Mizhou’ by Su Shi (苏轼)

‘Rain Clearance’ by Dù Fǔ (杜甫)

‘Anger’ by Yusef Komunyakaa

‘Aristotle’ by Billy Collins

‘How to Draw a Perfect Circle’ by Terrance Hayes

‘Hymn to Life’ by Timothy Donnelly

‘I Sing the Body Electric’ by Walt Whitman

‘The Land o’ the Leal’

‘Floreat Inertia’ by Nigel Blackwell

‘Aberdeen’ by Iain Crichton Smith

‘John Anderson my jo, John’ by Burns

‘To Some Young Communists from an Older Socialist’ by Naomi Mitchison

‘Where We’ve Left Our Love’ by Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton

‘The Day’ by Don Paterson

‘from’ by Don Paterson

‘Where the River Meets the Sea’ by John Mackay