This week’s choice is “Ode” by Arthur O’Shaughnessy which I have chosen to mark the sixth anniversary of Poet’s Day.
This week’s choice marks National Poetry Day and it’s a poem about a poet: Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “On a Portrait of Wordsworth by B. R. Haydon”.
Art Brian Patten Elizabeth Barrett Browning On a Portrait of Wordsworth by B R Haydon Poetry Poets
World Poetry Day is held every year on 21 March, so I have chosen one of my favourites this week: Wendy Cope’s “Engineers’ Corner”.
Engineers Engineers' Corner Poets Wendy Cope World Poetry Day
William Dunbar wrote this lament for the makaris—the Scottish poets of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.