Poems Explore our poems Our growing archive extends from past to present, gathering celebrated poets of history alongside great contemporary writers Showing 1-40 of 51 poems All Text Films Grid List Floral Birth '98 By Meriem Ahmed Read by Kayssie K Watch poem → The Illegitimate By ATMOS Collective Watch poem → As I Walked Out One Evening By W. H. Auden Read by Peter Halstead Watch poem → The Unknown Citizen By W. H. Auden Read by Bobby Hirston Watch poem → 10 Things I Want To Say to a Black Woman By Joshua Bennett Read by Samuel Yakura Watch poem → The Republic of Motherhood By Liz Berry Watch poem → Black Girl Magic By Mahogany L. Browne Watch poem → If 2017 was a poem title By Mahogany L. Browne Watch poem → Names By Mary Jean Chan Read by Sofia Oxenham Watch poem → Kumukanda By Kayo Chingonyi Read by Paapa Essiedu Watch poem → Some Rules By Wendy Cope Read by Catherine Dryden Watch poem → “Hope” is the thing with feathers By Emily Dickinson Read by Juliet Stevenson Watch poem → A Hymn to God the Father By John Donne Read by Simon Russell Beale Watch poem → I want to be like Frank O'Hara By Martina Evans Watch poem → What Heaney Said By FeliSpeaks Watch poem → Doña Teresa and the Chicken By Denice Frohman Watch poem → Puertopia By Denice Frohman Watch poem → Ecce Homo By David Gascoyne Read by Simon Callow Watch poem → The Heart of the Wood By Augusta, Lady Gregory Read by Doireann Ní Ghríofa Watch poem → On the Merits of Literature By Peter Halstead Watch poem → Rainbow By Peter Halstead Read by Pedja Muzijevic Watch poem → Talk: The Death of Shelley By Peter Halstead Watch poem → An Advancement of Learning By Seamus Heaney Read by Joseph Aldous Watch poem → Clearances By Seamus Heaney Read by Aaron Monaghan Watch poem → Girls Bathing, Galway, 1965 By Seamus Heaney Read by Marian Richardson Watch poem → Barn Owls in Suffolk By Seán Hewitt Watch poem → Some Waynes By Wayne Holloway-Smith Read by Andrew McMillan Watch poem → The Windhover By Gerard Manley Hopkins Read by Mark di Suvero Watch poem → Blind Boone’s Blessings By Tyehimba Jess Watch poem → Blind Boone’s Vision By Tyehimba Jess Watch poem → My Sister as a Body By Kayssie K Watch poem → Charcoal Iron By Nithy Kasa Watch poem → Cinderella By Tia Laurent Read by Cathy Halstead Watch poem → ode to edge control gel By Theresa Lola Watch poem → Saddle By Corbin Louis Read by Dagogo Hart Watch poem → Reggae Story By Hannah Lowe Watch poem → A Gift By Andrew McMillan Watch poem → Brightening By Doireann Ní Ghríofa Watch poem → Half Written Love Letter By Selina Nwulu Watch poem → Epitaph for Fire and Flower By Sylvia Plath Read by Jensen Gray Watch poem → 1 2 Next page →