Rising Five

Norman Nicholson warns us not to wish our lives away.

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Carpet Weavers, Morocco

Looking at life differently in Carol Rumens’ challenging poem

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After many years away from the country of her birth, Sujata Bhatt wonders if it’s finally time to share her memories of India.

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Liz Lochhead casts a spell in this magical realist poem.

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

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Who is the mysterious Lucy in this simple elegy by William Wordsworth?

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Alfred Lord Tennyson conjures a spectacular and sympathetic vision of a mythical creature.

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

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