I heard it was an emergency, so I emerged.

As an actor, I can’t do much without face to face contact. But I can read verse. If me reading a particular poem would make you happy, let me know and I’ll post it on @SoundCloud. I’ll try and do at least one a day x

Thanks for your myriad brilliant suggestions. I’ll post the first ones tomorrow.

Meanwhile, if anyone needs a bedtime story, this might be useful for dealing with extra tantrums. You know what adults are like.

Samuel West - Angry Arthur: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b072ngs2 via @bbciplayer

Right, here we go then. Hope you like them.

01 The Darkling Thrush, by Thomas Hardy
https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/01-the-darkling-thrush-by-thomas-hardy

02 The Lion and Albert by Marriott Edgar
https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/02-the-lion-and-albert-by-marriott-edgar

03 I Opened a Book by Julia Donaldson

Thanks for all your brilliant suggestions. More tomorrow
https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/03-i-opened-a-book-by-julia-donaldson

04 The Good Morrow by John Donne
https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/04-the-good-morrow-by-john-donne

05 Wild Geese by Mary Oliver https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/05-wild-geese-by-mary-oliver

06 On the Ning Nang Nong by Spike Milligan
https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/06-on-the-ning-nang-song-by-spike-milligan

07 To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell

Happy #NationalPoetryDay #PandemicPoems
https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/07-to-his-coy-mistress-by-andrew-marvell-nationalpoetryday

08 His Coy Mistress to Mr Marvell by A D Hope

Happy #NationalPoetryDay #PandemicPoems
https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/08-his-coy-mistress-to-mr-marvell-by-a-d-hope

09 Sometimes by Sheenagh Pugh

Happy #NationalPoetryDay. I hope you enjoy the readings. Tomorrow - guest readers! #PandemicPoems
https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/09-sometimes-by-sheenagh-pugh

Today's recordings include one by that fabulous reader @emmagafielding. Happy Sunday, all #PandemicPoems

10 The Mower by Philip Larkin
https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/10-the-mower-by-philip-larkin

11 Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 by William Wordsworth #PandemicPoems

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/11-composed-upon-westminster-bridge-september-3-1802-by-william-wordsworth

12 The Horses by Edwin Muir, read by Emma Fielding @emmagafielding #PandemicPoems

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/12-the-horses-by-edwin-muir-read-by-emma-fielding

13 The Land of Counterpane by Robert Louis Stevenson

For #MothersDay #PandemicPoems

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/13-the-land-of-counterpane-robert-louis-stevenson

14 The Ballad of Sweeney Todd by Stephen Sondheim

For SS @ 90 #Sondheim90Love @SondheimSociety
https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/14-the-ballad-of-sweeney-todd-by-stephen-sondheim

15 The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes

Requested by @spanglotron et al. Picture by Charles Keeping. More guest readers tomorrow #PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/15-the-highwayman-by-alfred-noyes

16 Sonnet 19 by John Milton

Day 6 of #PandemicPoems Guest readers today are @louisebrealey, @dudgeon_neil and @emmagafielding https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/16-sonnet-19-by-john-milton

17 Intimacy by Nina Cassian, read by @louisebrealey

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/17-intimacy-by-nina-cassian

18 Book Ends I & II by Tony Harrison, read by @dudgeon_neil

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/18-book-ends-i-ii-by-tony-harrison

19 The Lake Isle Of Innisfree by W B Yeats, read by @emmagafielding

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/19-the-lake-isle-of-innisfree-by-w-b-yeats

20 The World Is A Beautiful Place by Lawrence Ferlinghetti

For Ferlinghetti's 101st birthday #ferlinghetti101 #PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/20-the-world-is-a-beautiful-place-by-lawrence-ferlinghetti

21 The Peace Of Wild Things by Wendell Berry
#PandemicPoems

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/21-the-peace-of-wild-things-by-wendell-berry

22 Love After Love by Derek Walcott, read by @InuaEllams
#PandemicPoems

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/22-love-after-love-by-derek-walcott

23 Bedroom Poem by Roger McGough #PandemicPoems

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/23-bedroom-poem-by-roger-mcgough

24 Invictus by William Ernest Henley, requested by @malorieblackman et al #PandemicPoems

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/24-invictus-by-william-ernest-henley

25 If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking by Emily Dickinson #PandemicPoems

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/25-if-i-can-stop-one-heart-from-breaking-by-emily-dickinson

26 Disobedience by A A Milne #StayAtHome
#PandemicPoems

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/26-disobedience-by-a-a-milne

27 The Tale Of Custard The Dragon by Ogden Nash, read by @emmagafielding. Illustration by Lynn Munsinger #PandemicPoems #JeSuisCustard

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/27-the-tale-of-custard-the-dragon-by-ogden-nash

28 Everyone Sang by Siegfried Sassoon
For #ClapForNHS #PandemicPoems

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/28-everyone-sang-by-siegfried-sassoon

29 Londoner by Fleur Adcock, read by @louisebrealey
#PandemicPoems

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/29-londoner-by-fleur-adcock-read-by-louise-brealey

30 Sometimes A Wild God by Tom Hirons http://tomhirons.com 

#PandemicPoems Illustration by Rima Staines https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/30-sometimes-a-wild-god-by-tom-hirons

31 Black March by Stevie Smith

#PandemicPoems day 8 https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/31-black-march-by-stevie-smith

32 Cloudbusting by Kate Bush

For @NadiaShireen. Illustration by her.
#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/32-cloudbusting-by-kate-bush

33 Still I Rise by Maya Angelou, read by Adjoa Andoh @andoh_adjoa

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/33-still-i-rise-by-maya-angelou-read-by-adjoa-andoh

34 My Husband Was Very Cuddly by Rosie Wheatland

For @EntelechyArts #PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/34-my-husband-was-very-cuddly-by-rosie-wheatland

35 The Lost Joseph by Hafez of Shiraz (یوسف گمگشته بازآید به کنعان غم مخور), read by @khalidabdalla

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/35-the-lost-joseph-by-hafez-read-by-khalid-abdalla

36 The Jumblies by Edward Lear

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/the-jumblies-by-edward-lear

37 Atlas by U A Fanthorpe

#PandemicPoems day 10 @EnitharmonPress
https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/37-atlas-by-u-a-fanthorpe

38 Waltz by Edith Sitwell, read by Prunella Scales

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/waltz-by-edith-sitwell-read-by-prunella-scales

39 My Last Duchess by Robert Browning, read by Timothy West

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/39-my-last-duchess-by-robert-browning-read-by-timothy-west

40 Comment dire / What is the Word by Samuel Beckett, read by Joseph West @JoJoLaWe

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/40-comment-dire-what-is-the-word-by-samuel-beckett-read-by-joseph-west

41 These Are The Hands by Michael Rosen

For @MichaelRosenYes #GetWellSoonMichael #PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/41-these-are-the-hands-by-michael-rosen

42 One Art by Elizabeth Bishop

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/42-one-art-by-elizabeth-bishop

43 Walking Away by C Day Lewis, read by @dudgeon_neil

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/43-walking-away-by-c-day-lewis-read-by-neil-dudgeon

44 Cargoes by John Masefield

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/44-cargoes-by-john-masefield

45 The More Loving One by W H Auden

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/45-the-more-loving-one-by-w-h-auden

46 The Child-God Of Chaos by @InuaEllams, read by the author

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/45-the-child-god-of-chaos-by-inua-ellams-read-by-the-author

47 To Althea from Prison by Richard Lovelace

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/47-to-althea-from-prison-by-richard-lovelace

48 Keeping Quiet by Pablo Neruda

Translated by Alastair Reid #PandemicPoems
https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/48-keeping-quiet-by-pablo-neruda

49 April Rise by Laurie Lee

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/49-april-rise-by-laurie-lee

50 Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost, read by @emmagafielding

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/50-stopping-by-woods-on-a-snowy-evening-by-robert-frost-read-by-emma-fielding

51 Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/51-dover-beach-by-matthew-arnold

52 Good Bones by Maggie Smith

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/52-good-bones-by-maggie-smith

53 A Shropshire Lad XL by A E Housman, read by @beatieedney

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/53-a-shropshire-lad-xl-by-a-e-housman-read-by-beatie-edney

54 Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/54-jabberwocky-by-lewis-carroll

55 On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer by John Keats

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/55-on-first-looking-into-chapmans-homer-by-john-keats

56 Not Waving But Drowning by Stevie Smith, read by @RebeccaFront

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/56-not-waving-but-drowning-by-stevie-smith-read-by-rebecca-front

57 The Listeners by Walter de la Mare

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/57-the-listeners-by-walter-de-la-mare

58 For Desire by Kim Addonizio, read by @Susan_Wokoma

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/58-for-desire-by-kim-addonizio-read-by-susan-wokoma

59 Live Forever by Noel Gallagher

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/live-forever-by-noel-gallagher

60 The Orange by Wendy Cope

With thanks to the author for permission to read and reproduce her work on #PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/60-the-orange-by-wendy-cope

61 Michiko Dead by Jack Gilbert

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/61-michiko-dead-by-jack-gilbert

62 [i carry your heart with me(i carry it in] by e. e. cummings, read by @beatieedney

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/62-i-carry-your-heart-with-mei-carry-it-in-by-e-e-cummings-read-by-beatie-edney

63 No Man is an Island from Meditation XVII by John Donne

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/63-no-man-is-an-island-from-meditation-xvii-by-john-donne

64 Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/64-ozymandias-by-percy-bysshe-shelley

65 The Way We Go by Katharine Towers

With thanks to the poet for permission to read and post her work here

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/65-the-way-we-go-by-katharine-towers

66 Digging by Seamus Heaney

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/66-digging-by-seamus-heaney

67 The Book Of My Enemy Has Been Remaindered by Clive James, read by Deborah Frances-White @DeborahFW

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/67-the-book-of-my-enemy-has-been-remaindered-by-clive-james-read-by-deborah-frances-white

68 Litany by Billy Collins

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/68-litany-by-billy-collins

69 The Windhover by Gerard Manley Hopkins

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/69-the-windhover-by-gerard-manley-hopkins

70 Hope Is The Thing With Feathers by Emily Dickinson, read by @beatieedney

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/70-hope-is-the-thing-with-feathers-by-emily-dickinson-read-by-beatie-edney

71 The Eagle by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, read by Timothy West

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/71-the-eagle-by-alfred-lord-tennyson-read-by-timothy-west

72 Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798 by William Wordsworth

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/72-lines-composed-a-few-miles-above-tintern-abbey-by-william-wordsworth

73 Church Going by Philip Larkin

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/73-church-going-by-philip-larkin

74 To A Mouse by Robert Burns, read by Nicholas Ralph

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/73-to-a-mouse-by-robert-burns-read-by-nicholas-ralph

75 Diary Of A Church Mouse by John Betjeman

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/75-diary-of-a-church-mouse-by-john-betjeman

76 Refugees by Brian Bilston

Read and reproduced here by kind permission of the author @brian_bilston
#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/76-refugees-by-brian-bilston

77 Some keep the Sabbath going to Church by Emily Dickinson, read by @emmagafielding

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/77-some-keep-the-sabbath-going-to-church-by-emily-dickinson-read-by-emma-fielding

78 Into My Arms by Nick Cave

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/78-into-my-arms-by-nick-cave

79 Television, from 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' by Roald Dahl

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/79-television-from-charlie-and-the-chocolate-factory-by-roald-dahl

80 Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/80-annabel-lee-by-edgar-allan-poe

81 He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven by W B Yeats, read by @beatieedney

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/81-he-wishes-for-the-cloths-of-heaven-by-w-b-yeats-read-by-beatie-edney

82 On Time For Once by Brian Patten

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/82-on-time-for-once-by-brian-patten

83 Smiling Is Infectious by Karen McLendon-Laumann(?)

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/83-smiling-is-infectious-by-karen-mclendon-laumann

84 The Fall Of Rome by W H Auden

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/84-the-fall-of-rome-by-w-h-auden

85 The Germ by Ogden Nash

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/85-the-germ-by-ogden-nash

86 'For I Will Consider My Cat Jeoffry', from Jubilate Agno by Christopher Smart

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/86-for-i-will-consider-my-cat-jeoffry-from-jubilate-agno-by-christopher-smart

87 Cats Sleep Anywhere by Eleanor Farjeon, read by @beatieedney

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/87-a-14-year-old-convalescent-cat-in-winter-by-gavin-ewart

88 A 14-Year-Old Convalescent Cat in Winter by Gavin Ewart

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/88-a-14-year-old-convalescent-cat-in-winter-by-gavin-ewart

89 Daddy Fell Into The Pond by Alfred Noyes

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/89-daddy-fell-into-the-pond-by-alfred-noyes

90 If– by Rudyard Kipling, read by Timothy West

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/90-if-by-rudyard-kipling-read-by-timothy-west

91 Prayer for My Father as a Child by Miriam Nash

Read and reproduced here by kind permission of the author @miriamnash

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/91-prayer-for-my-father-by-miriam-nash

92 As the Team's Head Brass by Edward Thomas

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/92-as-the-teams-head-brass-by-edward-thomas

93 The Horses by Ted Hughes, read by @emmagafielding

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/93-the-horses-by-ted-hughes-read-by-emma-fielding

94 Is My Team Ploughing? by A E Housman

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/94-is-my-team-ploughing-by-edward-thomas

95 Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti

Text is here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44996/goblin-market. Illustration by Dante Gabriel Rossetti

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/95-goblin-market-by-christina-rossetti

96 Abou Ben Adhem by Leigh Hunt

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/96-abou-ben-adhem-by-leigh-hunt

97 The Harlot's House by Oscar Wilde, read by Gyles Brandreth @GylesB1

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/97-the-harlots-house-by-oscar-wilde-read-by-gyles-brandreth

98 Something Changed by Pulp

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/98-something-changed-by-pulp

99 Autumn Journal IV by Louis MacNeice

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/99-autumn-journal-iv-by-louis-macneice

100 The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost, read by Eddie Redmayne

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/100-the-road-not-taken-by-robert-frost-read-by-eddie-redmayne

101 Inversnaid by Gerard Manley Hopkins, read by @emmagafielding

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/101-inversnaid-by-gerard-manley-hopkins-read-by-emma-fielding

102 Frost At Midnight by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/102-frost-at-midnight-by-samuel-taylor-coleridge

103 Choosing A Name by Mary Lamb

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/103-choosing-a-name-by-mary-lamb

104 This Be The Verse by Philip Larkin, read by @beatieedney

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/104-this-be-the-verse-by-philip-larkin-read-by-beatie-edney

105 After The Lunch by Wendy Cope

Read and reproduced here by kind permission of the author
#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/105-after-the-lunch-by-wendy-cope

106 Scaffolding by Seamus Heaney, read by @itsjessregan

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/107-scaffolding-by-seamus-heaney-read-by-jessica-regan

107 In the Evening We Shall Be Examined on Love, by Thomas Centolella

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/107-in-the-evening-we-shall-be-examined-on-love-by-thomas-centolella

108 The Soldier by Rupert Brooke, read by Paterson Joseph @ignatius_sancho

For #StGeorgesDay

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/108-the-soldier-by-rupert-brooke-read-by-paterson-joseph

109 Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare, read by Juliet Stevenson

For #ShakespearesBirthday #PandemicPoems

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/109-sonnet-18-by-william-shakespeare-read-by-juliet-stevenson

110 Sonnet 65 by William Shakespeare, read by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith @HoldbrooksMyth

For #ShakespearesBirthday #PandemicPoems

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/110-sonnet-65-by-william-shakespeare-read-by-kobna-holdbrook-smith

111 Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare, read by @emmagafielding

For #ShakespearesBirthday #PandemicPoems

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/111-sonnet-29-by-william-shakespeare-read-by-emma-fielding

112 Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare, read by Eddie Redmayne

For #ShakespearesBirthday #PandemicPoems

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/112-sonnet-116-by-william-shakespeare-read-by-eddie-redmayne

113 Sonnet 19 by William Shakespeare, read by @Andoh_Adjoa

For #ShakespearesBirthday #PandemicPoems

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/113-sonnet-19-by-william-shakespeare-read-by-adjoa-andoh

114 Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare

For #ShakespearesBirthday #PandemicPoems

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/114-sonnet-130-by-william-shakespeare

115 Sonnet 73 by William Shakespeare, read by Timothy West

For #ShakespearesBirthday #PandemicPoems

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/115-sonnet-73-by-william-shakespeare-read-by-timothy-west

116 A Book by Emily Dickinson

For #WorldBookNight #PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/116-a-book-by-emily-dickinson

117 Musée des Beaux Arts by W H Auden, read by @dudgeon_neil

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/117-musee-des-beaux-arts-by-w-h-auden-read-by-neil-dudgeon

118 Solitude, from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by George Gordon, Lord Byron

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/118-solitude-from-childe-harolds-pilgrimage-by-george-gordon-lord-byron

119 Too Many Daves by Dr Seuss

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/119-too-many-daves-by-dr-seuss?in=user-115260978/sets/pandemic-poems-by-samuel-west

120 A Silly Poem by Adam Bojelian

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/120-a-silly-poem-by-adam-bojelian

121 I Want The Faith by Linnet Drury

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/121-i-want-the-faith-by-linnet-drury

122 Printer's Error by P G Wodehouse

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/122-printers-error-by-p-g-wodehouse

123 Firestarter by The Prodigy

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/123-firestarter-by-the-prodigy-1

124 The London Breed by Benjamin Zephaniah, read by Paterson Joseph @ignatius_sancho

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/124-the-london-breed-by-benjamin-zephaniah-read-by-paterson-joseph

125 I Wanna Be Yours by John Cooper Clarke

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/125-i-wanna-be-yours-by-john-cooper-clarke

126 Déjeuner du matin (Breakfast) by Jacques Prévert, read by Hedwige West

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/126-dejeuner-du-matin-breakfast-by-jacques-prevert-read-by-hedwige-west

127 Quarantine by Eavan Boland, read by @ellahickson

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/127-quarantine-by-eavan-boland-read-by-ella-hickson

128 Desiderata by Max Ehrmann

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/128-desiderata-by-max-ehrmann

129 Silence by Thomas Hood

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/129-silence-by-thomas-hood

130 Sounds Of The Day by Norman MacCaig, read by Nicholas Ralph

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131 Prayer Before Birth by Louis MacNeice

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132 You're by Sylvia Plath, read by @emmagafielding

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133 Through a Glass Darkly by Arthur Hugh Clough

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134 I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (Daffodils) by William Wordsworth

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135 Spring by Gerard Manley Hopkins

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136 Naming Of Parts, from 'Lessons of the War' by Henry Reed

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/136-naming-of-parts-from-lessons-of-the-war-by-henry-reed

137 London by William Blake

For #IWD2020 #PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/137-london-by-william-blake

138 A Ritual to Read to Each Other by William E Stafford

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/138-a-ritual-to-read-to-each-other-by-william-e-stafford

139 Daffodil Ministry by U A Fanthorpe

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/139-daffodil-ministry-by-u-a-fanthorpe

140 Dog in the Playground by Allan Ahlberg

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/140-dog-in-the-playground-by-allan-ahlberg

141 Before You Cut Loose by Simon Armitage, read by
@beatieedney

By kind permission of the author and Faber & Faber
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142 An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog by Oliver Goldsmith

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/142-elegy-on-the-death-of-a-mad-dog-by-oliver-goldsmith

143 Invitation by Mary Oliver

For #InternationalDawnChorusDay

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/143-invitation-by-mary-oliver

144 Rice Pudding by A A Milne, read by Nina Sosonya

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/144-rice-pudding-by-a-a-milne-read-by-nina-sosonya

145 The Last Living Rose by PJ Harvey

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/145-the-last-living-rose-by-pj-harvey

146 The History Teacher by Billy Collins

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/146-the-history-teacher-by-billy-collins

147 This Is The Time To Be Slow by John O'Donohoe, read by Jessica Regan @itsjessregan

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/148-this-is-the-time-to-be-slow-by-john-odonohoe-read-by-jessica-regan

148 Opening Crawl from STAR WARS by George Lucas

For #StarWarsDay

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/148-opening-crawl-from-star-wars-by-george-lucas

149 Night Mail by W H Auden

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/149-night-mail-by-w-h-auden

150 Adelstrop by Edward Thomas

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/150-adelstrop-by-edward-thomas

151 From A Railway Carriage by Robert Louis Stevenson

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/151-from-a-railway-carriage-by-robert-louis-stevenson

152 O Me! O Life! by Walt Whitman

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/152-o-me-o-life-by-walt-whitman

153 Arrival By R S Thomas, read by Amy Morgan @AmyMogs

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/153-arrival-by-r-s-thomas-read-by-amy-morgan

154 Late Fragment by Raymond Carver

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/154-late-fragment-by-raymond-carver

155 Ode To A Nightingale by John Keats

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/155-ode-to-a-nightingale-by-john-keats

156 L'Albatros (The Albatross) by Charles Baudelaire, read by Joe West @JoJoLaWe

Translated by A Z Foreman, and reproduced with permission

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/156-lalbatros-the-albatross-by-charles-baudelaire-read-by-joe-west

157 To A Nightingale by R F Langley

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/157-to-a-nightingale-by-r-f-langley

158 Shadows by D H Lawrence, read by @Susie_Dent

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/158-shadows-by-d-h-lawrence-read-by-susie-dent

159 Storm Warnings by Adrienne Rich, read by @LouiseBrealey

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/159-storm-warnings-by-adrienne-rich-read-by-louise-brealey

160 Pandemic by Lynn Ungar, read by @BeatieEdney

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/160-pandemic-by-lynn-ungar-read-by-beatie-edney

161 Lie in the Dark and Listen by Noël Coward

For #VEDay75

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/161-lie-in-the-dark-and-listen-by-noel-coward

162 In Time of ‘The Breaking of Nations’ by Thomas Hardy, read by Richard Trinder @rich_trinder

For #VEDay75

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/162-in-time-of-the-breaking-of-nations-by-thomas-hardy-read-by-richard-trinder

163 High Flight by John Gillespie McGee Jr.

For #VEDay75

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/163-high-flight-by-john-gillespie-mcgee-jr

164 Fern Hill by Dylan Thomas

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/164-fern-hill-by-dylan-thomas

165 The Way Things Are by Roger McGough, read by @StephenMangan

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/165-the-way-things-are-by-roger-mcgough-read-by-stephen-mangan-1

166 I Saw A Jolly Hunter by Charles Causley

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/166-i-saw-a-jolly-hunter-by-charles-causley

167 Albert's Return by Marriott Edgar

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/167-alberts-return-by-marriott-edgar

168 Little Red Cap by Carol Ann Duffy, read by Beatie Edney

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/168-little-red-cap-by-carol-ann-duffy-read-by-beatie-edney

169 Childhood These Days by @MarkAntonyOwen

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/169-childhood-these-days-by-mark-antony-owen

170 The Lowest Trees Have Tops by Sir Edward Dyer

#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/the-lowest-trees-have-tops-by-sir-edward-dyer

171 Sonnet 43 (How Do I Love Thee?) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, read by Nina Sosonya

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/171-how-do-i-love-thee-by-elizabeth-barrett-browning #PandemicPoems

172 Not To Mention Love: A Heart for Patricia by David Clewell

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/172-not-to-mention-love-a-heart-for-patricia-by-david-clewell #PandemicPoems

173 Sea Fever by John Masefield

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/173-sea-fever-by-john-masefield #PandemicPoems

174 Toads by Philip Larkin, read by @dudgeon_neil

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/174-toads-by-philip-larkin-read-by-neil-dudgeon #PandemicPoems

175 Dirge Without Music by Edna St Vincent Millay

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/175-dirge-without-music-by-edna-st-vincent-millay #PandemicPoems

176 I Must Go Down to the Sea Again by Spike Milligan

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/176-i-must-go-down-to-the-sea-again-by-spike-milligan #PandemicPoems

177 My Own Heart Let Me More Have Pity On by Gerard Manley Hopkins

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/177-my-own-heart-let-me-have-more-pity-on-by-gerard-manley-hopkins #PandemicPoems

178 The Eve of St Agnes by John Keats, read by Jamie Parker @DickLeFenwick

Poem text here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44470/the-eve-of-st-agnes Watercolour by John Everett Millais

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/179-the-eve-of-st-agnes-by-john-keats-read-by-jamie-parker #PandemicPoems

179 Kindness by Naomi Shihab Nye

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/kindness-by-naomi-shihab-nye #PandemicPoems

180 Oxford Canal by James Elroy Flecker

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/180-oxford-canal-by-james-elroy-flecker #PandemicPoems

181 The Rolling English Road by G K Chesterton, read by Timothy West

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/181-the-rolling-english-road-by-g-k-chesterton-read-by-timothy-west

182 We Are Wimbledon - The 1988 Wimbledon FC FA Cup Squad

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/181-we-are-wimbledon-the-1988-wimbledon-fc-fa-cup-squad #PandemicPoems

183 Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/183-kubla-khan-by-samuel-taylor-coleridge #PandemicPoems

184 Do Take Muriel Out by Stevie Smith, read by @RebeccaFront

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/184-do-take-muriel-out-by-stevie-smith-read-by-rebecca-front #PandemicPoems

185 Eldorado by Edgar Allan Poe

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/185-eldorado-by-edgar-allan-poe #PandemicPoems

186 She Walks In Beauty by George Gordon, Lord Byron

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/186-she-walks-in-beauty-by-george-gordon-lord-byron #PandemicPoems

187 Green Eggs and Ham by Dr Seuss, read by @Quinlan_Carrie

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/187-green-eggs-and-ham-by-dr-seuss-read-by-carrie-quinlan

188 The Song of the Ungirt Runners by Charles Hamilton Sorley

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/the-song-of-the-ungirt-runners-by-charles-hamilton-sorley #PandemicPoems

189 The Trees by Philip Larkin

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/189-the-trees-by-philip-larkin #PandemicPoems

190 This Is A Low by Blur

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/190-this-is-a-low-by-blur #PandemicPoems

191 A Smuggler's Song by Rudyard Kipling

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/191-a-smugglers-song-by-rudyard-kipling #PandemicPoems

192 Lullaby by W H Auden

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/192-lullaby-by-w-h-auden #PandemicPoems

193 Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns, read by Nicholas Ralph

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/192-red-red-rose-by-robert-burns-read-by-nicholas-ralph #PandemicPoems

194 No Sense of Direction by Vernon Scannell

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/194-no-sense-of-direction-by-vernon-scannell #PandemicPoems

195 Piano by D H Lawrence

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/197-piano-by-d-h-lawrence #PandemicPoems

196 Morning Song by Sylvia Plath, read by @emmagafielding

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/196-morning-song-by-sylvia-plath-read-by-emma-fielding #PandemicPoems

197 Block City by Robert Louis Stevenson

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/197-block-city-by-robert-llouis-stevenson #PandemicPoems

198 Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/198-do-not-go-gentle-into-that #PandemicPoems

199 If I Don't Know by Wendy Cope

Read and reproduced by kind permission of the author

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/199-if-i-dont-know-by-wendy-cope #PandemicPoems

200 Autumn Journal XIX by Louis MacNeice

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/200-autumn-journal-xix-by-louis-macneice #PandemicPoems

201 Youth and Age on Beaulieu River Hants by John Betjeman

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/201-youth-and-age-on-beaulieu-river-hants-by-john-betjeman #PandemicPoems

202 When You Are Old by W B Yeats, read by @beatieedney

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/202-when-you-are-old-by-w-b-yeats-read-by-beatie-edney #PandemicPoems

203 The Old Stoic by Emily Brontë

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/203-the-old-stoic-by-emily-bronte #PandemicPoems

204 The Flea by John Donne

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/204-the-flea-by-john-donne #PandemicPoems

205 Silly Old Baboon by Spike Milligan

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/205-silly-old-baboon-by-spike-milligan #PandemicPoems

206 The Rat by Don Paterson

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/206-the-rat-by-don-paterson #PandemicPoems

207 Henry King, Who Chewed bits of String, and was early
cut off in Dreadful Agonies, by Hilaire Belloc

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/207-henry-king-by-hilaire-belloc

208 Mamoyi by Kendel Hippolyte, read by Sibusiso Mamba @spoorah

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/208-mamoyi-by-kendel-hippolyte-read-by-sibusiso-mamba #PandemicPoems

209 I Remember, I Remember by Thomas Hood

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/209-i-remember-i-remember-by-thomas-hood #PandemicPoems

210 The Second Coming by W B Yeats

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/210-the-second-coming-by-w-b-yeats #PandemicPoems

211 Children Will Listen, from 'Into The Woods' by Stephen Sondheim

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/211-children-will-listen-from-into-the-woods-by-stephen-sondheim #PandemicPoems

212 somewhere i have never travelled gladly beyond by e.e. cummings

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/212-somewhere-i-have-never-travelled-gladly-beyond-by-ee-cummings #PandemicPoems

213 Celia, Celia by Adrian Mitchell

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/212-celia-celia-by-adrian-mitchell #PandemicPoems

214 Echo by Christina Rossetti, read by @beatieedney

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/214-echo-by-christina-rossetti-read-by-beatie-edney #PandemicPoems

215 Song, 'My Dear Mistress Has A Heart' by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/215-song-my-dear-mistress-has-a-heart-by-john-wilmot-earl-of-rochester #PandemicPoems

216 From 'Epitaphs Of The War' by Rudyard Kipling

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/216-from-epitaphs-of-the-war-by-rudyard-kipling #PandemicPoems

217 Oh Freddled Gruntbuggly by Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz / Douglas Adams

For #TowelDay #TowelDay2020

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/217-oh-freddled-gruntbuggly-by-prostetnic-vogon-jeltz-douglas-adams #PandemicPoems

218 To A Poet A Thousand Years Hence by James Elroy Flecker

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/218-to-a-poet-a-thousand-years-hence-by-james-elroy-flecker #PandemicPoems

219 A Blade Of Grass by Brian Patten, read by @emmagafielding

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/219-a-blade-of-grass-by-brian-patten-read-by-emma-fielding #PandemicPoems

220 The Thought Fox by Ted Hughes

https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/220-the-thought-fox-by-ted-hughes #PandemicPoems