Seamus Heaney wants to grow up to be like his dad
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Category: Songs of Ourselves
Hunting Snake
Judith Wright gives us a glimpse of the sublime
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The Cockroach
Kevin Halligan’s as stuck as a bug in a rut
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A Married State
Matrimony’s not quite so holy in Katherine Philips’ anti-marriage poem
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The Chimney-Sweeper
William Blake sweeps away the comforting lies that enable child exploitation
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Report to Wordsworth
Boey Kim Cheng asks whether nature’s champions can still save her
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Before the Sun
Charles Mungoshi eulogises rural life in this deceptively simple poem from Zimbabwe
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Where I Come From
Nurture trumps nature in Elizabeth Brewster’s austerely beautiful poem
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An Essay on Man
Alexander Pope examines our place in the grand scheme of things
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