Parenting

The Light Gatherer

By Carol Ann Duffy

From Feminine Gospels

Published by Picador

What Are You?

By Matt Harvey

'What Are You?' is from The Hole in the Sum of my Parts published by The Poetry Trust

Extract from ‘Yo Ho Ho A Pirating We’ll Go’

by Kaye Umansky and Nick Sharratt, published by Puffin

To a May Baby

by Winifred Mabel Letts

Taken from http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/to-a-may-baby/

Born Yesterday

By Philip Larkin

From Philip Larkin – Collected Poems

Published by Faber & Faber

Shoulders

by Naomi Shihab Nye

From Being Human

Published by Bloodaxe

Mother to Son

by Langston Hughes

From the Collected Poems of Langston Hughes

Published by Vintage

Extract from Megatron

by Hollie McNish

Taken from ‘Free Thinking’ on Radio 3, 8.13.16

Infant Joy

by William Blake

From The Poetical Works of William Blake

Published by Oxford University Press

Infant Sorrow

by William Blake

From The Poetical Works of William Blake

Published by Oxford University Press

A Poet to His Baby Son

By James Weldon Johnson

From James Weldon Johnson: Complete Poems

Published by Penguin

Night Feed

by Eavan Boland

From Night Feed

Published by Carcanet Press Ltd

The Roundabout

by Don Paterson

From 40 Sonnets by Don Paterson

Published by Faber & Faber

Cycle 7 from Heart's Needle

by WD Snodgrass

Taken from Heart’s Needle

Published by Marvell Press

My Son the Man

by Sharon Olds

From Sharon Olds – Selected Poems

Published by Cape

Autobiography

by Samuel Menashe

From Being Human

Published by Bloodaxe

Lullaby

by James Agee

From Remembering James Agee

Published by The University of Georgia Press

Lullaby / Extract from ‘The Princess’

By Alfred Lord Tennyson

From Alfred Lord Tennyson: Selected Poems

Published by Dover Publications Inc