Poetry for the Spring Equinox
A day of poems for the burgeoning Spring.
Edward Thomas - The Cherry Trees
A poem for spring. Noma Dumezweni reads The Cherry Trees, by Edward Thomas.
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Gerard Manley Hopkins - Spring
A poem for the first day of a new season: Spring by Gerard Manley Hopkins.
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Alice Oswald - A Wood Coming into Leaf.
A poem for the first day of spring: Alice Oswald reads her A Wood Coming into Leaf.
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Charlotte Mew - In the Fields, Philip Larkin - The Trees
Spring poems: Charlotte Mew's In the Fields and Philip Larkin's The Trees.
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Robert Burns - Up in the Morning Early (read by Bill Paterson)
"Cauld blaws the wind frae east to west, The drift is driving sairly"
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'With nerves frozen numb he napped in his armour'—Today
Poet Simon Armitage reads from his translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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Liz Lochhead reads her poem In the Mid-Midwinter
"Bless us with their long-travelled light"
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Don Paterson reads his poem Rain
"I love all films that start with rain: rain, braiding a windowpane"
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Carol Ann Duffy reads her poem Snow
"Then all the dead opened their cold palms and released the snow"
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Walter de la Mare's A Robin (read by Noma Dumezweni)
"Ghost-grey the fall of night, Ice-bound the lane"
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Kathleen Jamie reads her poem Perfect Day
"Perfect Day I am just a woman of the shore"
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Louis MacNeice's Snow (read by Anton Lesser)
"The great bay-window was spawning snow and pink roses against it"
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Kayo Chingonyi reads his poem Winter Song
"The synth lines slide like ice sheets"
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Frost at Midnight (read by Simon Russell Beale)
"The Frost performs its secret ministry"
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