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Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy's Farm, The Mower to the Glow-Worms, Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines

Three poems to reflect on the longest day of the year before the light begins to fade.
There Came a Wind Like a Bugle by Emily Dickinson

Harriet Walter reads There Came a Wind Like a Bugle for the midpoint of summer.
Dream Variations by Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes' Dream Variations, read by Noma Dumezweni.
A Bee by Peter Didsbury

A playful, surreal take on the life of a man as a bee, read by Anton Lesser.
Failing and Flying by Jack Gilbert

Jack Gilbert's reflective poem for the midpoint of summer, read by Simon Russell Beale.
Poems for the Spring Equinox

A collection of poems to celebrate the arrival of spring.
Work Without Hope by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Trees are Down by Charlotte Mew, It is Not Growing Like a Tree by Ben Jonson

Poems to celebrate the spring equinox.
Wet Evening in April by Patrick Kavanagh

Anton Lesser reads Wet Evening in April by Patrick Kavanagh.
Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now by AE Housman

Simon Russell Beale reads AE Housman's, Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now.
Nostos by Louise Gluck

Poems to celebrate the spring equinox. Harriet Walter reads Nostos by Louise Gluck.
Black March by Stevie Smith

Poems to celebrate the spring equinox. Noma Dumezweni reads Black March by Stevie Smith.
Poems for the Winter Solstice

Poems for the winter solstice.
Winter Solstice poems

Poems for the winter solstice.
Travelling in a Comfortable Car by Bertolt Brecht

Siobhan Redmond reads Travelling in a Comfortable Car by Bertolt Brecht.
Winter Song by Katherine Mansfield

Poems for the winter solstice. Sir Derek Jacobi reads Winter Song by Katherine Mansfield.
Out of Danger by James Fenton

Poems to celebrate the winter solstice. Anton Lesser reads Out of Danger by James Fenton.
Aonghas MacNeacail - excerpt from The Great Snowbattle

Gaelic poet Aonghas MacNeacail reads an excerpt from his epic poem The Great Snowbattle.
Autumn Poems

Autumn poems old and new read by actors and poets to mark the turning of the year.
Owl, Mushrooms and a fragment of Sappho

Autumn poems old and new read by actors and poets to mark the turning of the year.
Jack Snipe by Jacob Polley

Autumn poems old and new read by actors and poets to mark the turning of the year.
Who has Seen the Wind by Christina Rossetti and Gathering Mushrooms by Michael Longley

Autumn poems old and new read by actors and poets to mark the turning of the year.
On Wenlock Edge by AE Housman

Autumn poems old and new read by actors and poets to mark the turning of the year.
Now Westlin Winds by Robert Burns

Autumn poems old and new read by actors and poets to mark the turning of the year.
An Anthology of Summer Poems

An anthology of summer poems, old and new, for the middle of the year.
William Morris, William Shakespeare and Seamus Heaney - Summer Poems

Summer poems from William Morris, William Shakespeare and Seamus Heaney.
Heliotropical by Lavinia Greenlaw

Summer poems: Heliotropical, by Lavinia Greenlaw.
Edward Thomas's Adlestrop

Summer poems: Edward Thomas's Adlestrop, read by Simon Russell Beale.
Edwin Morgan's Strawberries

Summer poems: Bill Paterson reads Edwin Morgan's Strawberries.
Cut Grass by Philip Larkin; The Way through the Woods by Rudyard Kipling

Summer poems: Cut Grass by Philip Larkin and The Way through the Woods by Rudyard Kipling.
An anthology of poems for the new season

An anthology of old and new poems for spring read by actors and poets for Four Seasons.