Which is your favourite poem and why?

Morning Song by Sylvia Plath. Has been since I was a new mother.

Tell Me Not Here by Housman, such musical verse.

Adlestrop by Edward Thomas, the ultimate concise description of an English country station.

The Oxen by Thomas Hardy, a wonderfully atmospheric Christmas poem.

I have hundreds of favourites, though. I try to learn some by heart, but I’m getting worse at that. It was so easy when I was young..

Cargoes by John Masefield.
“ Quinquireme of Nineveh from distant Ophir”
It was captivating to me as a 10 year old child.

Shakespeare's Sonnet 116. 'Let me not to the marriage of true minds.....'

I love Roger McGough's poetry

The Lady of Chaillot - just so sad and was appropriate to me at a certain time- ' a curse has come upon me'!

The Owl and the Pussy Cat by Edward Lear

My Paternal Grandpa made sure I could recite it before I started school, it brings back fond memories of him (he also taught me how to spell my first word Constantinople my teacher was suitably impressed by both) He was a great believer in all round knowledge.