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We continue our theme of story poems this month with engrossing tales from Muriel Spark, Czeslaw Milosz, Maurice Riordan, Seamus Heaney and John Keats.

Newcomers to the program include Mimi Khalvati, Sinead Morrissey, Dick Davis, Frieda Hughes and the New Zealand poet Lauris Edmond.

We celebrate the birthdays of the two great Willliams - Wordsworth on the 7th and 8th and Shakespeare on the 23rd.

American contributions come from Louise Gluck, Maya Angelou and the author of All The King's Men - Robert Penn Warren; and we have much-loved poems from old favourites - Adrian Henri, Constantin Cavafy, Tony Harrison, E J Scovell, John Donne and George Herbert.

True to John Fletcher's description, in England March came in like a lion and stayed roaring; only now has it decided to go out like a lamb ...

We hope you enjoy the spring with PfT.

April

1	Frieda Hughes Lauris Edmond	English New Zealand	Stonepicker 3 AM
2	Lauris Edmond	New Zealand	Anniversary Greek Antiquities First Floor
3	George Herbert John Donne	English English	Easter Wings Two Songs
4	Maya Angelou Tristan Tzara	American Romanian	The Lesson The Admiral Looks for a House
7	William Wordsworth	English	Daffodils
8	William Wordsworth	English	Lucy Poems
9	E J Scovell	English	If I Could Paint Essences Reflections on Old Age
10	Adrian Henri	English	Love is I Want to Paint I
11	Jacques Prévert Adrian Henri	French English	Breakfast I Want to Paint II
14	Seamus Heaney	Irish	Two Lorries
15	Muriel Spark	Scottish	Going Up to Sothebys
16	Maurice Riordan	Irish	Time Out
17	Czeslaw Milosz	Lithuanian	The Legend
18	Dick Davis	English	Guides for the Soul A Monorhyme for the Shower 6 AM Thoughts
21	John Keats	English	La Belle Dame sans Merci
22	Louise Gluck	American	Lullaby Summer The Wild Iris
23	William Shakespeare	English	Sonnets 63, 64, 65
24	Sinead Morrissey Robert Penn Warren	N Irish American	Genetics San Francisco Night Windows
25	Walter de la Mare James Fenton	English English	The Listeners Nothing
28	Mimi Khalvati	Iranian	Overblown Roses Rubaiyat
29	Constantin Cavafy	Egyptian	The City Waiting for the Barbarians
30	Tony Harrison	English	Initial Illumination

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