From the Book - First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Donal of by Anonymous / Natascha McElhone --
Isn't that something? by Rumi / Elif Shafak --
Bani Adam by Sa'adi / Nazanin Boniadi --
The angels at the tavern door by Hafiz / Ladan Boroumand --
Grief gille the room up from King John by William Shakespeare / Marina Warner --
Extract from the duchess of Malfi by John Webster / Janet Suzman --
On my first son by Ben Jonson / Katherine Bucknell --
Clerk Saunders by Anonymous / Diana Athill --
Frost at midnight by Samuel Taylor Coleridge / Helen Macdonald --
I loved the boy... by William Wordsworth / Pam Ayres --
So we'll go no more a roving by Lord Byron / Judi Dency and Emily Mortimer --
Ode to Nightingale by John Keats / Marina Lewycka --
Extract from the masque of anarchy by Pecy Bysshe Shelley / Tena Stivicic --
Ulysses by Alfred, Lord Tennyson / Erica Jong --
About Ben Adhem by Leigh Hunt / Joan Baez --
I am by John Clare / Helen Pankhurst --
Sonnets from the Portugese: XXVII by Elizabeth Barrett Browning / A. L. Kennedy --
Say not the struggle naught availeth by Arthur Hugh Clough / Margaret Drabble --
The charge of the light brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson / Wendy Cope --
Facing west from California's shores by Walt Whitman / Irma Kurtz --
After great pain, a formal feeling comes- by Emily Dickinson / Siri Hustvedt --
I took my power in my hand by Emily Dickinson / Elena Ferrante --
The world- feels dusty by Emily Dickinson / Joyce Didonato --
The walrus and the carpenter by Lewis Carrol / Bella Freud --
Life is but a dream by Lewis Carroll / Victoria Coren Mitchell --
When you are old by W.B. Yeats / Mariella Frostrup --
The song of wandering Aengus by W.B. Yeats / Carol Ann Duffy and Joanne Harris --
To a fat lady seen from the train by Frances Cornford / Jacqueline Wilson --
Tenebris interlucentem by James Elroy Flecker / Jan Morris --
Listen! by Else Lasker-Schuler and No solace here by Gottfried Benn / Catherine Mayer --
Adlestrop by Edward Thomas / Lynn Barber and Kate Atkinson --
The love song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot / Bianca Jagger --
Papyrus by Ezra Pound / Mary Beard --
Fallen by Alice Corbin / Maxine Peake --
Anthem for doomed youth by Wilfred Owen / Emma Pooley --
Suicide in the trenches by Siegfried Sassoon / Annie Lennox --
Does it matter? by Siegfried Sassoon / Allie Esiri --
Strange Meeting by Wilfred Owen / Vanessa Redgrave --
Medusa by Louise Bogan / Karen Joy Fowler --
Bells for John Whiteside's daughter by John Crowe Ransom / A. E. Stallings --
I explain a few things by Pablo Neruda / Julie Christie --
Hurt Hawks by Robinson Jeffers / Ursula K. Le Guin --
Funeral Blues by W. H. Auden / Rosie Boycott --
In memory of Signund Freud by W. H. Auden / Shami Chakradarti --
Requiem by Anna Akhmatova / Anne Applebaum and Kate Allen --
Excerpt from Four Quartets: no 4. little gidding by T.S. Eliot / Nell Gifford --
The peasants by Alun Lewis / Anne Reid --
Excerpt from the lost son: 5. it was beginning winter by Theodore Roethke / Francine Prose --
If you forget me by Pablo Neruda / Nicole Farhi --
Timothy Winters by Charles Causley / Joan Bakewell --
Sestina by Elizabeth Bishop / Ruth Scurr --
Of mere being by Wallace Stevens / Rebecca Miller --
Waking in the blue by Robert Lowell / Helen Dunmore --
Edge by Sylvia Plath / Edna O'Brien --
Unknown girl in the maternity ward by Anne Sexton / Jackie Kay --
The bean eaters by Gwyendolyn Brooks / Nikki Giovanni --
Extract from let us believe in the beginning of a cold season by Forugh Farrokhzad / Sepideh Jodeyri --
Those winter Sundays by Robert Hayden / Sharon Olds --
Dublinesque by Philip Larkin / Maggie Gee --
Walls by Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali / Thokozile Masipa --
Little sleep's-head sprouting hair in the moonlight by Galway Kinnell / Michelle Williams --
Diving into the wreck by Adrienne Rich / Kate Mosse --
One art by Elizabeth Bishop / Claire Bl
