Teenagers

The Force that through the green fuse drives the flower

By Dylan Thomas

From Dylan Thomas -The Poems

Published by Dent & Sons 1971

O Captain my Captain

By Walt Whitman

From Selected Poems

Published by Dover Publications 1991

Mother, any distance greater than a single span

By Simon Armitage

From Book of Matches

Publised by Faber & Faber

Walking Away

By C. Day Lewis

From C.Day Lewis Selected Poems,

Published by Enitharmon Press 2004

She Pops Home

By Cal Clothier

Unpublished

Outgrown

By Penelope Shuttle

From Unsent

Published by Bloodaxe 2012

A Puppy Called Puberty

By Adrian Mitchell

From Blue Coffee

Published by Bloodaxe 1996

The Concerned Adolescent

By Wendy Cope

From Serious Concerns

Published by Faber & Faber 1992

Extract from A Balade of Charitie

By Thomas Chatterton

From Chatterton’s Poetical Works

Published by The Aldine Edition of The British Poets

New Vibrations

By Ila Colley

Father and Son I & II

By John Thompson

Extract from A Shropshire Lad

By AE Housman

Published by Hesperus 2008

Odi et Amo

By Catullus

From Catullus The Complete Poems

Published by Oxford paperbacks 2008

Salome

By Carol Anne Duffy

From The World’s Wife

Published by Picador 2010

Blessing

By Imtiaz Dharker

From Modern Women Poets

Published by Bloodaxe 2005