Percy Bysshe Shelley exhorts us to rise up in this powerful poetical polemic.
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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.
Not Waving But Drowning
Stevie Smith asks if we couldn’t all do a little more to help from time to time.
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In Praise of Creation
Faith is stronger than doubt in this eulogy by Elizabeth Jennings.
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Ode on Melancholy
Go with John Keats on a quest to find Joy in the mystical realm of Lethe.
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Cetacean
If you feel like you’re missing that spark of inspiration, go whale-watching with Peter Reading.
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Little Boy Crying
Mervyn Morris debates if it’s ever right to smack a child.
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Mid-Term Break
Seamus Heaney shares with us a sad memory from his childhood.
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Stormcock in Elder
Muse, angel, herald, companion, spirit guide. Ruth Pitter explores the significance of a seemingly ordinary bird in this lovely poem.
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Caged Bird
Maya Angelou explores suffering, inequality and a people’s refusal to give up in this hard-hitting poem.
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