Life’s a squeeze in Sampurna Chattarji’s depiction of Mumbai.
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Author: Poetry Prof
Poetry Prof is the work of Doug Sillett, from Somerset in the southwest of the UK, a place who's greatest claim to poetry fame is as the site of inspiration for Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
Children of Wealth
Elizabeth Daryush shows how money can’t buy happiness in this sympathetic sonnet.
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The Bus
Get your tickets and board Arun Kolatkar’s mysterious old bus for a mystical nighttime journey.
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Funeral Blues
When the world doesn’t seem to care, turn to Auden’s moving elegy.
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Away, Melancholy
When Stevie Smith gets knocked down, she gets back up again.
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From Long Distance
Tony Harrison’s father copes with grief in his own way.
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The City Planners
Take a drive through Margaret Atwood’s sinister suburban poem to find out who the City Planners are – and what they really want.
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A Consumer’s Report
Peter Porter pushes back against consumer-culture in this uniquely un-poetic poem.
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Night Sweat
Sink or swim in the sea of Robert Lowell’s obsession.
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Request to a Year
Judith Wright knows what it takes to be a successful artist: her great-great-grandmother showed her the way.
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