Saturday, 25 January 2025

Winning Words Chosen by William Sieghart

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This collection from 2012 brings together a wide selection of poems – many familiar but good to read them again…


I put tabs in:

The Hug by Thom Gunn

Hinterhof by James Fenton

Voice by Ann Sansom

Waving by Pat Boran

My Brilliant Image by Hafez

Two Cures for Love by Wendy Cope

Envying Owen Beattie by Sheenagh Pugh

The Way Things Are by Roger McGough, mainly for the line “A drowning Dadaist with not appreciate | the concrete lifebelt.”

The Trees by Philip Larkin

Count That Day Lost by George Elliot

Pushing Forty by Alison Fell

Church Going by Philip Larkin

Happiness by Raymond Carver

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