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These poems come from a special recording for the Poetry Archive:

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  1 -
  "Poem for a Daughter"
  
  
• 2 -
  "The Spirit is too Blunt an Instrument"
  
  
• 3 -
  "The Suburb"
  
  
• 4 -
  "The Mother"
  
  
• 5 -
  "The Victory"
  
  
• 6 -
  "By the Boathouse, Oxford"
  
  
• 7 -
  "Path"
  
  
• 8 -
  "Transparencies"
  
  
• 9 -
  "A Surprise on the First Day of School"
  
  
• 10 -
  "Innocence and Experience"
  
  
• 11 -
  "A Marriage"
  
  
• 12 -
  "Arioso Dolente"
  
  
• 13 -
  "Sous-entendu"
  
  
• 14 -
  "Swifts"
  
  
• 15 -
  "Enough of Green"
  
  
• 16 -
  "In the Tunnel of Summers"
  
  
• 17 -
  "North Sea off Carnoustie"
  
  
• 18 -
  "Still Life in Utah"
  
  
• 19 -
  "If I Could Paint Essences"
  
  
• 20 -
  "The Wind, the Sun and the Moon"
  
  
• 21 -
  "Leaving"
  
  
• 22 -
  "Why Take Against Mythology (1)"
  
  
• 23 -
  "Why Take Against Mythology (2)"
  
  
• 24 -
  "The Writer in the Corner"
  
  
• 25 -
  "The Fiction-Makers"
  
  
• 26 -
  "Small Philosophical Poem"
  
  
• 27 -
  "Willow Song"
  
  
• 28 -
  "Granny Scarecrow"
  
  
• 29 -
  "When the camel is dust it goes through the needle's eye"
  
  
• 30 -
  "Impromptu in C Minor"
  
  
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  31 -
  "On Going Deaf"
  
  
• 32 -
  "Talking Sense to my Senses"
  
  
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  33 -
  "Who's Joking with the Photographer?"
  
  
• 34 -
  "Terrorist"
  
  
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  35 -
  "Making Poetry"
  
  

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