My favourites

I tried to pick my top ten, but it wasn't that easy

Peter Porter

• An exequy

Tony Harrison

• The mother of the muses

• Marked with D

• Continuous

Glyn Maxwell

• Letters to Edward Thomas

• My grandfather at the pool

Anne Bradstreet

• In Reference to her Children, 23 June 1659

Christopher Reid

• A scattering (everything in it)

Carol Ann Duffy

• Prayer

• Big Sue and now voyager

Alden Nowlan

• This is what I wanted to sign off with

• He sits down on the floor of a school for the retarded

Philip Larkin

• The whitsun weddings

• MCMXIV

• An Arundel tomb

• The old fools

W.H. Auden

• In memory of WB Yeates

• Thank you fog

Christopher Logue

• War Music

Paul Durcan

• 10.30 mass on June 16th

C. Day Lewis

• My mother's sister

• Walking away (for Sean)

Louis MacNeice

• Autumn Journal

Hugo Williams

• I knew the bride

• Margaret Vyner

R.S. Thomas

• Geriatric

Craig Raine

• The prophetic book

• Heaven on earth

Simon Armitage

• The tyre

• Sir Gawain and the green knight

Stephen Spender

• Missing my daughter

• Almond tree in a bombed city

• Almond tree by a bombed church

Louise Gluck

• Snowdrops