Performance Order

1

'All the world's a stage' speech from 'As You Like It'

William Shakespeare

2

The Owl and The Pussycat

Edward Lear

3

Jerusalem

William Blake

4

No man is an island

John Donne

5

The Jabberwocky

Lewis Carroll

6

The Origins of the word ‘Yes’

Luigi Coppola

7

'Do not go gentle into that good night'

Dylan Thomas

8

Invictus

William Ernest Henley

9

To Whom It May Concern

Andrew Motion

10

Ozymandias

Percy Bysshe Shelley

11

The Tyger

William Blake

12

That One Thing

Luigi Coppola

13

Leisure

WH Davies

14

The Crocodile

Lewis Carroll

15

What Thomas Said in the Pub

Stephen James

16

Funeral Blues

WH Auden

17

There was a Young Species

Luigi Coppola

18

Let Me Die A Youngman's Death

Roger McGough

19

One Nation Under a Goatee

Murray Lachlan Young

20

'Do not stand at my grave and weep'

Mary Elizabeth Frye

21

Escape at Bedtime

Robert Louis Stevenson

22

He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven

WB Yeats

23

The Soldier

Rupert Brooke

24

Anthem for Doomed Youth

Wilfred Owen

25

Parable of Poet, Actor, Violinist

Luigi Coppola

26

A Red, Red Rose

Robert Burns

27

Valentine (Duffy)

Carol Ann Duffy

28

How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

29

Who?

Charles Causley

30

The Giving Tree

Shel Silverstein

31

To Help the Monkey Cross the River

Thomas Lux

32

My Master's Dragon

Jack Prelutsky

33

For a Gravestone

Luigi Coppola

34

The Road Not Taken

Robert Frost

35

The English Are So Nice

DH Lawrence

36

Not Waving But Drowning

Stevie Smith

37

[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]

e e cummings

38

Pied Beauty

Gerard Manley Hopkins

39

Remember

Christina Rossetti

40

'Because I could not stop for Death' (479)

Emily Dickinson

41

O Captain! My Captain!

Walt Whitman

42

Trees

Joyce Kilmer

43

My Own Epitaph

John Gay

44

Wild White Face

Luigi Coppola

45

Money

Dana Gioia

46

This Living Hand

John Keats

47

Daffodils

William Wordsworth

48

The Pig

Anon

49

The General

Siegfried Sassoon

50

Nulla Fides ('For God's sake, mark that fly;')

Patrick Cary

51

Drinking

Abraham Cowley

52

Holy Sonnet 10 ('Death be not proud')

John Donne

53

Mirror

Sylvia Plath

54

Heard Joke Once

Alan Moore

55

Adam

Luigi Coppola

56

Fire and Ice

Robert Frost

57

A Boy Named Sue

Shel Silverstein

58

The Cow

Ogden Nash

59

A Blade of Grass

Brian Patten

60

My Old Cat

Hal Summers

61

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Robert Frost

62

Small Song

AR Ammons

63

Fleas

Ogden Nash

64

The Eagle

Alfred Lord Tennyson

65

The Glove and The Sock

Luigi Coppola

66

Resumé

Dorothy Parker

67

Sonnet 19 ('Devouring Time')

William Shakespeare

68

'There once was a man up a tree'

Edward Lear & response

69

Jenny Kissed Me

Leigh Hunt

70

A Very Small Song

Dorothy Parker

71

Valentine

Wendy Cope

72

Overheard on a Saltmarsh

Harold Munro

73

15 Million Plastic Bags

Adrian Mitchell

74

Wishes of an Elderly Man, Wished at a Garden Party, June 1914

Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh

75

This is just to say

William Carlos Williams

76

Poem XXII from Spring and All

William Carlos Williams

77

In a Station of the Metro

Ezra Pound

78

Heredity

Thomas Hardy

79

The Ideal

James Fenton

80

XL: 'Into my heart an air that kills' from A Shropshire Lad

AE Housman

81

In the Middle of the Road

Carlos Drummond de Andrade

82

Token Loss

Kay Ryan

83

The Greatest Poem in the English Language

Richard Burton

84

The Unknown

Donald Rumsfeld

85

'I saw a man pursuing the horizon'

Stephen Crane

86

Good Time Jesus

James Tate

87

Dead Cow Farm

Robert Graves

88

The Other

RS Thomas

89

First Fig

Edna St. Vincent Millay

90

My Papa’s Waltz

Theodore Roethke

91

Westron Wind

Anon

92

Pebble

Luigi Coppola

93

Sticks

Luigi Coppola

94

This Be The Verse

Philip Larkin

95

The Duck and The Kangaroo

Edward Lear

96

A Visit from Saint Nicholas

Clement Clarke Moore

97

Incident

Countee Cullen

98

Limerick

Keeley Coppola

99

Strange Fruit

Abel Meeropol

100

Cross

Langston Hughes

101

Evidently Chickentown

John Cooper Clarke

102

Bluebird

Charles Bukowski

103

A Childish Prank

Ted Hughes

104

In the Desert

Stephen Crane

105

Justice

Langston Hughes

106

Fable of the Mermaid and the Drunks

Pablo Neruda

107

Observation

Dorothy Parker

108

Phenomenal Woman

Maya Angelou

109

The Night Apple

Allen Ginsberg

110

There once was a man from Nantucket

Anon

111

Ode to a Snowman

Luigi Coppola

112

Lumbersexual’s Cautionary Tale

Luigi Coppola

113

Statement

Luigi Coppola