A young girl's memories of growing-up in a grey industrial town and how one remarkable stay with her aunt inspired her for life
Future Perfect
A somewhat introspective piece by Turner, atypical to his usual themes of love and sentimentality.
O sleeping child
Calvert was a nineteenth-century romantic poet and diarist, whose works were often published in the popular press of the time. She is possibly best-known for her poem "Love, we are a parted day" (which you can also find on this website).
The Fugitive
This is a rare poem from the pen of Durand, more familiar as a novelist and short-story writer. Despite the atypical genre, Durand's characteristic macabre tone and theme are certainly recognisable.
Cholesterol
A short comic verse, often read in lower schools and performed enthusiastically by the children
Fernando Fox
Another piece taken from the "Alphabetical Poetical Animal House" collection, set in the stereotype of the English countryside.
Days are lost whilst finding time
A short poem from 2016, whose title has become a pithy quotation referring to the curse of procrastination and the eternal regret of opportunities wasted.
Turn Into The Shadow
Louton is probably our best-known wartime poet, albeit her themes were not stress and horrors of the battlefields but the stress of loved-ones left at home. This poem is styled as a conversation between herself, remaining at home in Saint-Dominique, and her husband, fighting in the trenches in France. The honesty of her various poetic messages to him resonated with many of her contemporaries.
Patrick Panda
Taken from the collection of comic-verse "Alphabetical Poetical Animal House", this poem - and its heroic star panda - became a crossover sensation when it was adapted for a famous television commercial.
They do not sleep
A thoughtful light poem from the well-known writer, whose pieces have become modern classics.
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