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In this week’s choice, Alfred Lord Tennyson tells the story of the fairy lady of Shallot, doomed to fall under a curse should she look towards the royal castle of Camelot.

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This week’s poem marries history with geography as Rudyard Kipling takes picturesque places and matches them with historical events.

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We all experience criticism from time to time and it is often delivered in a form that is neither enjoyable nor helpful.

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Today is St. George’s Day and it seems fitting to mark it with some suitable words.

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This week’s poem comes from my favourite Shakespeare play, Much Ado About Nothing.

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This week’s poem is “Frost at Midnight” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge which I have chosen in honour of my nephew Harry’s first birthday, because it has the most beautiful passage describing Coleridge’s dreams for his baby son.

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It is now a year since I started selecting three poems and writing about them once a week.

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This week’s poems are three riddles written by Jonathan Swift. I wonder how many you can guess.

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This week’s choices take a look at the stars, which have enchanted and mystified humanity since the dawn of intelligence.

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This week’s theme is Spring, or at least the hope of it.

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