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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The Telephone Call

Fleur Adcock reminds us that, in the final reckoning, we’re all winners; we just need to remember to appreciate it.

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Pride comes before a fall in Percy Shelley’s smashing sonnet.

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Thom Gunn gives form to fear in a time of crisis.

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Don’t look back in anger, advises Thomas Hardy; but is he hiding deeper regrets?

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Anne Stevenson’s philosophical poem asks what it means to be truly alive.

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Charles Tennyson Turner finds himself unexpectedly moved by a tiny tragedy.

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Edward Thomas’ not-quite-a-war poem inspired by a tempestuous downpour.

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Follow Henry Wotton’s step-by-step guide to peace and contentment.

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See the lengths A.R.D. Fairburn will go to bury the misery of romantic failure.

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