Poets

Wendy Cope.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Dylan Thomas, Andrew Marvell, Simon Armitage.

Sylvia Plath is my all-time favourite poet, but I also love everything from Yeats, Wordsworth and Larkin to Stevie Smith, with a special mention to my ancestor Robert Burns!

John Donne, Andrew Marvell, Christina Rossetti, Robert Burns, Philip Larkin, T.S.Eliot, Carol Ann Duffy. These are top of my list today. It might change tomorrow!

Philip Larkin for me, and John Bejteman.
Current poets? Christopher Reid, Frederick Seidel and Andrew Motion

Have you tried listening to a poetry podcast? Frank Skinner does one where he talks you through his reactions. I really enjoy listening. I don’t think he’s chosen a Dylan Thomas poem yet but plenty of others.

My favourites include Elizabeth Bishop, Walt Whitman, e.e.cummings, Wendy Cope, William Blake. All very different.

Always been TS Elliot, followed by WB Yeats.

I prefer modern poets to the romantics. I also love to listen to poets reading their own poems.

Simon Armitage is my favourite living poet. I listen to him on you tube and also enjoy his podcasts.

Mary Oliver was a great poet too and I love to listen to her on you tube too.

I really enjoy Felix Dennis -Never Look Back.