The Poets' Calendar
 
A series of poetry pages combining the poetry of Wordsworth and the Romantics with related contemporary poems. 

Edited by Stephen Hebron and W.N. Herbert.   

January

William Wordsworth:
The Solitary Reaper
 

Robert Burns:
Address to a Haggis
 

W.N. Herbert:
To a Mousse

February

Jo Shapcott:
Thursday Night in the Temple of Mithras


W.H. Auden:
Roman Wall Blues

William Wordsworth:
from Bk 1 of The Prelude

March

John Kinsella:
Interim

Robert Adamson:
A False Tide Chart

William Wordsworth:
'I wandered lonely as a cloud'

April

Don Paterson:
St. Brides: Sea-Mail

Douglas Dunn:
St Kilda's Parliament


Lord Byron:
Darkness

May

(Still to be completed)

June

Mark Robinson:
Shivering under blankets in the car

Chris Pilling:
In His Shoes


William Wordsworth:
Stepping Westwards

July

(Still to be completed)

August

Mary Shelley:
Introduction to The Last Man

Julia Copus:
The Sybil at Cumae

Katrina Porteous:
The Lost Music

September

(Still to be completed)

October 

William Wordsworth:
Home at Grasmere
 

Pablo Neruda:
The House of Odes
 

W.N. Herbert:
The Manuscript of Feathers
 

November 

S.T. Coleridge:
from Ode to Rain 

Seamus Heaney:
The Rain Stick
 

W.N. Herbert:
The Black Wet 
 

December

Dorothy Una Ratcliffe:
Twelve Days of Christmas 

Tom Rawling:
Sloe Gin 

Norman Nicholson:
Carol
 

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