"Donal og" 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 fills 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: XXVIII" 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 Carroll / 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 Sigmund Freud" by W.H. Auden / Shami Chakrabarti --
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 Bloom --
"Verses from my room" by Susanna Tomalin / Claire Tomalin --
"Sonny's Lettah (anti-sus poem)" by Linton Kwesi Johnson / Joss Stone --
"Grow old with me" by John Lennon / Yoko Ono --
Extract from ten cheremiss (mari) songs by Anselm Hollo / Lydia Davis --
"The kaleidoscope" by Douglas Dunn / Juliet Stevenson --
"On squaw peak" by Robert Hass / Kaui Hart Hemmings --
"Perfection wasted" by John Updike / Tina Brown --
"Clearances" by Seamus Heaney / Sarah Waters and Zoe Heller --
"Nullipara" by Sharon Olds / Sarah Gavron --
"When death comes" by Mary Oliver / Helena Kennedy --
"Late fragment" by Raymond Carver / Miranda Hart --
"Minority" by Imtiaz Dharker / Meera Syal --
"Michael's dream" (from atlantis) by Mark Doty / Anne Enright --
"Daylight robbery" by Paul Henry / Stephanie Dale --
"Epiphany" (from birthday letters) by Ted Hughes / Sam Taylor-Johnson --
"I am selling my daughter for 100 won" by Jang Jin-sung / Hyeonseo Lee --
Extracts from battalion 101 by Micheal O'Siadhail / Mala Tribich --
"The last part" by Deborah Keily / Olivia Colman --
"Our neighbours" by Felix Dennis / Joanna Lumley --
Revenge" by Taha Muhammad Ali / Ruth Ozeki --
"To a" by Harold Pinter / Antonia Fraser --
"Road signs" by Caroline Bird / Jude Kelly --
"Small comfort" by Katha Pollitt / Patricia Clarkson --
"Home" by Warsan Shire / Sunny Jacobs --
"For women who are difficult to love" by Warsan Shire / Taiye Selash --
"Sixty years after" by Derek Walcott / Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie --
"John, this is the sea" (from something like the sea) by Philip Gross / Deborah Bull --
"The ballad of true regret" by Sebastian Barker / Heather Glen --
"This skin that carry my worth" by Earl Mills / Azar Nafisi --
"An unseen" by Carol Ann Duffy / Imtiaz Dharker --
"City horse" by Henri Cole / Joyce Carol Oates --
"Vigil" by Jeremy Robson / Maureen Lipman --
"Sentenced to life" by Clive James / Germaine Greer
"Why amnesty thinks this book is important" by Nicky Parker.
