Ian McMillan

Swifts

by Kathleen Jamie

From The Overhaul

Published by Picador

Hamnavoe Market

by George Mackay Brown

From The Year of the Whale

Published by Chatto & Windus

Plankton

by Norman Nicholson

From Sea to the West

Published by Faber & Faber

Miracle

by Stephanie Norgate

From Staying Human

Published by Bloodaxe

Seeing a Goal Scored From A Passing Train

By Ian McMillan

From Yes But What Is This? What Exactly?

Published by The Poetry Business

In Memory of My Mother

By Patrick Kavanagh

From Patrick Kavanagh - Collected Poems

Published by Penguin Modern Classics

Living

by Denise Levertov

From Denise Levertov, New Selected Poems

Published by Bloodaxe Books, 2003

Returning We Hear the Larks

by Isaac Rosenberg

From Men Who March Away; Poems of the First World War

Published by Viking Press

I Shall Keep Singing

by Emily Dickinson

From The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson

Published by Back Bay Books

A Poem For A Morning

by Margaret Tait

From Margaret Tait: Poems, Stories and Writings

Published by Carcanet Press

The Dream Keeper

by Langston Hughes

From The Dream Keeper and Other Poems

Published by Alfred A. Knopf

September 1st 1939

by WH Auden

From Another Time

Published by Random House

Used by permission of Curtis Brown, Ltd.

Copyright © 1940

All Rights reserved

One Art

by Elizabeth Bishop

From The Complete Poems

Published by Chatto & Windus