Storyteller

Liz Lochhead casts a spell in this magical realist poem.

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The Poplar-Field

William Cowper visits a woody riverbank by which he passed many pleasant childhood days… to find it irrevocably changed.

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Isobel Dixon shows us that older really does mean wiser as she reminisces ruefully about her childhood.

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Allen Curnow suggests that there’s a right time to die in this tough, but rewarding, poem.

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Watch as James K. Baxter’s eponymous Farmhand refuses the call to adventure in this poem from New Zealand.

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning attempts the impossible: counting the ways one person can love another.

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Unlock your imagination and help Billy Collins find his vanished herd.

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Robert Hayden’s heartbreaking song of ice and fire.

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Edna St. Vincent Millay is confronted with mortality in this exquisitely crafted little poem.

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John Clare gets maudlin when he falls in love with an unattainable woman.

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