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People in Poetry

Twentieth-century poems introduce a rogue’s gallery of anti-heroes for our time, selected and introduced by poet and expert poetry-teacher Matthew Sweeney.



(Educational Level ks3, ages 11-14)
CONTENTS

Why Brownlee Left, by Paul Muldoon
Swineherd, by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
nobody loses all the time, by e.e. cummings
The River Merchant's Wife - A Letter, by Li Po (transl. Ezra Pound)
My Papa's Waltz, by Theodore Roethke
Stealing, by Carol Ann Duffy
Red Roses, by Anne Sexton
Tom Bone, by Charles Causley