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Welcome to the month of Spring!
As well as celebrating Spring - with A E Housman, Robert Frost, Salvatore Quasimodo. e e cummings and John Burnside - we also celebrate Lady Day with Denise Levertov's Annunciatiion.
Central to this month's schedule is the beginning of an exploration of story-telling in poetry. We start with perhaps the most famous - Browning's The Pied Piper of Hamelin, spread over the 7th and 10th - and continue with story poems by W H Auden, Ovid (in a translation by Ted Hughes), Brendan Kennally, the Palestinian Mahmoud Darwish, Derek Mahon and the brilliant new English poet Frances Leviston.
The month starrts by celebrating the birthdays of five American male poets and two American women poets and - remembering that Spring is also the season of love - we revisit Anna Akhmatova's wonderful poem Cinque and explore the nature of love with Colette Bryce, Elizabeth Barrett Browniing and Michelangelo. as well as through two Forward Prize-winning poems from Kate Bingham.
March
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3
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Richard Wilbur
James Merrill
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American
American
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A Summer Morning
Master and Man
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4
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Robert Hass
Robert Lowell
William Carlos Williams
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American
American
American
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Misery and Splendour
Will Not Come Back
Love Song
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5
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Anna Akhmatova
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Russian
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Cinque
Don’t Be Afraid
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6
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Colette Bryce
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Michelangelo Buonarotti
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N Irish
English
Italian
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Blackbirds
I Never Gave a Lock
At times pure love
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7
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Robert Browning
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English
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin 1
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10
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Robert Browning
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English
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin 2
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11
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W H Auden
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English
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Miss Edith Gee
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12
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Naomi Shihab Nye
Gwendolyn Brooks
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American
American
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Kindness
The Sunset of the City
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13
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Brendan Kennally
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Irish
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The Story
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14
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Mahmoud Darwish
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Palestinian
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A State of Siege
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17
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Derek Mahon
Edith Joy Scovell
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N Irish
English
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Antarctica
A Woman Condemned to Virtue
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18
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Kate Bingham
Wilfred Owen
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English
English
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Divorce
Exposure
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19
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John Burnside
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Scottish
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De Anima
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20
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Ovid/Ted Hughes
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Latin
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Tiresias
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21
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Salvatore Quasimodo
e e cummings
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Italian
American
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21st March
o sweet spontaneous earth
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24
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Jo Shapcott
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English
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Goat
My Life Asleep
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25
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Denise Levertov
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American
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Annunciation
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26
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A E Housman
Robert Frost
A E Housman
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English
American
English
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March
A Boundless Moment
Loveliest of Trees
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27
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Kate Bingham
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English
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Monogamy
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28
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Frances Leviston
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English
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In the Beginning
Scandinavia
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31
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Marge Piercy
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American
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The Low Road
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