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As summer begins to wane, we observe its passing with Emily Dickinson and Edward Arlington Robinson, and comment on the gradual fading of human relationships with a number of poets new to the program - Medbh McGuckian, Thomas Blackburn, Esta Spalding, Michael Laskey, Mairi MacInnes and, from America, Gjertrud Schnackenberg.
Old favorites are here too - Shelley and Tennyson, Ted Hughes and Thom Gunn, Dorothy Parker and John Betjeman ...
Enjoy!
August
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1
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Theodore Roethke
Esta Spalding
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American
Canadian
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A Walk in Late Summer
from August
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2
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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English
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To a Skylark
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5
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Conrad Aiken
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American
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The Rejection
Discordants I
To My Wife
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6
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Alfred Lord Tennyson
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English
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Tithonus
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7
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Marilyn Monroe
Sara Teasdale
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American
American
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Life
Primavera Mia
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8
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Sara Teasdale
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American
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After Love
Buried Love
If Death is Kind
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9
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Louise Bogan
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American
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Men Loved Wholly Beyond Wisdom
Late
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12
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Medbh McGuckian
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Irish
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She is in the Past
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13
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Thomas Blackburn
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English
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A Small Keen Wind
Now Light Congeals
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14
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Czeslaw Milosz
Bertolt Brecht
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Lithuanian
German
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Prayer
The Democratic Judge
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15
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Michael Laskey
Mairi MacInnes
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Irish
English
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A Tray of Eggs
The Old Naval Airfield
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16
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Geoffrey Dearmer
Ted Hughes
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English
English
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The Turkish Trench Dog
Full Moon and Little Frieda
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19
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Emily Dickinson
Mary Oliver
Hart Crane
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American
American
American
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Summer Begins to have the Look
The Heron Rises
Repose of Rivers
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20
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Salvatore Quasimodo
X J Kennedy
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Italian
American
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Only If Love Should Pierce You
Deer Ticks
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21
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X J Kennedy
Czeslaw Milosz
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American
Lithuanian
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First Confession
Christopher Robin
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22
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Dorothy Parker
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American
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A Certain Lady
A Dream Lies Dead
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25
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Edward Arlington
Robinson
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American
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Late Summer
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26
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Guillaume Apollinaire
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French
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The Mirabeau
Bridge
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27
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Gjertrud Schnackenberg
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American
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Snow Melting
Signs
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28
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Sir John Betjeman
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English
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Inexpensive Progress
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29
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Thom Gunn
Alice Oswald
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English
English
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The Gas Poker
Mountains
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