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- Simon Armitage
- WH Auden
- John Betjeman
- William Blake
- Robert Browning
- Robert Burns
- Lord Byron
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Wendy Cope
- John Donne
- Carol Ann Duffy
- TS Eliot
- Thomas Hardy
- Seamus Heaney
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Ted Hughes
- John Keats
- Rudyard Kipling
- Philip Larkin
- Roger McGough
- John Milton
- Wilfred Owen
- Sylvia Plath
- Christina Rossetti
- Stevie Smith
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Dylan Thomas
- William Wordsworth
- WB Yeats
- Benjamin Zephaniah
On TV & Radio
Find out what's on and when
Greta Scacchi salutes poetess Judith Wright in South of My Days on BBC Radio 4 and more in our guide to the season programmes. Plus, watch and listen again on BBC iPlayer.
Poets
Jarvis reads Blake for Radio 1
Jarvis Cocker reads William Blake's London, with animation courtesy of BBC21cc, in a video specially created for Rob Da Bank's BBC Radio 1 show. Plus, more about the poets.
Celebrity Choices
Exclusive web videos
Michelle Ryan, Bill Drummond, Alex James, Miquita Oliver and a host of stars from music, broadcasting and comedy reveal the poets who are closest to their hearts.
Spoken Word
Latest from the live poetry scene
In his second monthly column, professional poet Patrick Neate talks about getting angry and previews events in the spoken word and performance poetry calendar for July.
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