All poems as friends

Since 2014, The Poetry Exchange has been inviting people to tell us about the poem that has been a friend to them - through live conversations, online nominations, and written contributions to our 10th anniversary anthology.

Here is a list of all the poems we have met over the years - brought to us by readers who have known them as friends.

Read the list of poems in alphabetical order by poem here.

* = featured on The Poetry Exchange podcast
± = featured in Poems as Friends: The Poetry Exchange 10th Anniversary Anthology

Salma Abdulatif - Narcicissm - A Friend to Salma Kauthar

Jill Abram - I Have Forgotten My Father - A Friend to Jill Abram

Elizabeth Acevedo - Hair - A Friend to Fiyin Okupe

Kim Addonizio - To the Woman Crying Uncontrollably in the Next Stall - A Friend to Sallyanne Rock

Kim Addonizio - You Don't Know What Love Is - A Friend to Salena Godden*±

Nazik al-Mala’ika, tr. Rebecca C. Johnson - Love Song for Words - A Friend to Maryam Alsaeid *±

Elizabeth Alexander - Ars Poetica #100: I Believe - A Friend to John Prebble *±

Maya Angelou - Phenomenal Woman - A Friend to Haya Genawi

Maya Angelou - Still I Rise - A Friend to Fehmida Master *±

Maya Angelou - When Great Trees Fall - A Friend to Mari Lewis

Simon Armitage - It ain’t what you do, it’s what it does to you - A Friend to Jessica Taylor

Simon Armitage - Xanadu - A Friend to Natasha Jenkins

W.H. Auden - Au Musée des Beaux Arts - A Friend to Robert Faber

W.H. Auden - Funeral Blues - A Friend to Christine Morgan

W.H. Auden - In Praise Of Limestone - A Friend to Jo Bell

Meline Avagyan - Type of Person - A Friend to Meline Avagyan

Charles Bane - In Paris - A Friend to Clara Macri

Lois Bar-Yaacov - To Walk in Jerusalem - A Friend to Keren Bar-Yaacov

Nikki Bennett - Requiem Mass - A Friend to Nikki Bennett

Fiona Bennett - Take Hands - A Friend to Fiona Bennett

Liz Berry - Princes End - A Friend to Steve Harrison

Wendell Berry - The Peace Of Wild Things - A Friend to Shirelle Burton

Liz Berry - The Republic of Motherhood - A Friend to Ana Sampson *

Liz Berry - The Way Home - A Friend to Casey Bailey *

Attilio Bertolucci - Per B /For B - A Friend to Isy Mead

Hera Lyndsay Bird - Pyramid Scheme - A Friend to Rupert Goold ±

Elizabeth Bishop - One Art - A Friend to Suzanne Iuppa

Elizabeth Bishop - The Map - A Friend to Tom Bird

William Blake - The Garden Of Love - A Friend to Heather Bolton

William Blake - The Lamb - A Friend to Sally Anglesea

Eavan Boland - This Moment - A Friend to Matthew Dickman

Max Boyce - Rhondda Grey - A Friend to Roy Thomas

Jean 'Binta' Breeze - Truth - A Friend to Sue Brown *±

Gwendolyn Brooks - Old Mary - A Friend to Pete Stones *±

Jean Brossard - The Tryst - A Friend to Françoise Deconinck

Robert Burns - Ae Fond Kiss - A Friend to Brian Cox *

Robert Burns - Such A Parcel Of Rogues In A Nation - A Friend to James Cozens

Lord Byron - Don Juan, Canto I - A Friend to Charlotte May

Scott Cairns - YHWH’S Image - A Friend to Tyler Rice

Zbigniew Herbert, tr. Bogdana Carpenter - The Envoy of Mr. Cogito - A Friend to Nick Laird *

Martin Carter - Poems of Shape and Motion - A Friend to Mark Mace Smith

Martin Carter - Proem - A Friend to Nicholas Laughlin *±

James Carter - Take a Poem - A Friend to Juliana

Raymond Carver - Happiness - A Friend to Martin Zarrop

Raymond Carver - Late Fragment - A Friend to Jean Laurie

Raymond Carver - Locking yourself out, then trying to get back in - A Friend to Elizabeth Neathey

Charles Causley - Timothy Winters - A Friend to Tim Kiely *

C.P. Cavafy - Half An Hour - A Friend to Michael Hanley

C.P. Cavafy - Ithaka - A Friend to Jacqueline Saphra

C.P. Cavafy - Ithaka - A Friend to David Arbus

C.P. Cavafy - Ithaka - A Friend to Caroline Sweeney

C.P. Cavafy - Return - A Friend to Jon Davis *±

Linda Chase - The young Taoist transcends his body - A Friend to Martin Kratz ±

Dan Chelotti - Compost - A Friend to Alice Bryant *

John Clare - I Am! - A Friend to Brian Cox *±

Gilian Clarke - Scything - A Friend to Holly Rivers

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Kubla Khan - A Friend to Gregory Leadbetter *±

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - A Friend to Sonja Zelic

Billy Collins - Lying in Bed in the Dark I Silently Address the Birds of Arizona - A Friend to Sergios Hadjivasilis

Jane Commane - Midlands Kids - A Friend to Peter Raynard

Mary Connely - Final Sightings - A Friend to Graeme Oswald

Wendy Cope - The Orange - A Friend to Emily Escott

William Cowper - The Stricken Deer - A Friend to Basir Kazmi

Hart Crane - Voyages II - A Friend to Subhadassi ±

Robert Creeley - A Form Of Women - A Friend to Annette Brook

E.E. Cummings - anyone lived in a pretty how town - A Friend to Valerie Jamieson

E.E. Cummings - I carry your heart with me - A Friend to Debs Hart

E.E. Cummings - I thank you God for most this amazing - A Friend to Maureen P. Kane

W.H. Davies - Leisure - A Friend to Victoria Eynon

W.H. Davies - Leisure - A Friend to Adrienne O'Sullivan

Nuala Ní Dhomnaill, tr. Paul Muldoon - A Recovered Memory of Water - A Friend to Pádraig Ó Tuama *±

Robert Vas Dias - Do Angels Eat - A Friend to Hilda Sheehan

Emily Dickinson - "Hope" is the thing with feathers - A Friend to Petra Swendt

Emily Dickinson - "Hope" is the thing with feathers - A Friend to Lucy Heuschen *±

Emily Dickinson - "Hope" is the thing with feathers - A Friend to Grace

Matthew Dickman - Grief - A Friend to Rowena Knight *

Peter Didsbury - Cider Story - A Friend to Jonathan Davidson

John Donne - Death Be Not Proud - A Friend to Atar Hadari

Maura Dooley - Life and Land, May 3rd, 1979 - A Friend to Alistair Snell

Jane Draycott - The Note - A Friend to Robbie Burton

Nikolai Duffy - A Hut on Ludshott Common - A Friend to Ceri Morgan

Carol Ann Duffy - Last Post - A Friend to Jackie Curtis *

Carol Ann Duffy - Miles Away - A Friend to Lauren Gauge

Carol Ann Duffy - Prayer - A Friend to Tricia Waller *±

Carol Ann Duffy - Prayer - A Friend to Rommi Smith

Carol Ann Duffy - Valentine - A Friend to Sean Carr

Helen Dunmore - The Malarkey - A Friend to Dave Wilkinson

Douglas Dunn - Dining - A Friend to Sarah Salway

Stephen Dunn - How To Be Happy: Another Memo To Myself - A Friend to Eve Lyons

Roxy Dunn - 5AM - A Friend to Paterson Joseph *±

Paul Durcan - The Death by Heroin of Sid Vicious - A Friend to John Crowley *±

T.S. Eliot - Little Gidding - A Friend to Zebedee Alby

T.S. Eliot - The Dry Salvages - A Friend to Alice Willington

T.S. Eliot - The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock - A Friend to Ella Frears *±

T.S. Eliot - The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock - A Friend to Jocelyn Cunningham

T.S. Eliot - The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock - A Friend to Katherine Lockton

T.S. Eliot - The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock - A Friend to Patrick Cash

T.S. Eliot - Whispers of Immortality - A Friend to Ian Tabbron

Ralph Emerson - Brahma - A Friend to Ditte

Louise Erdrich - Advice to Myself - A Friend to Ruth Stacey

James Fenton - For Andrew Wood - A Friend to Jon Atkin

Alistair Finlayson - Shed of Dance - A Friend to Richard Day

Erich Fried - Dich / You - A Friend to Katharine Goda

Robert Frost - Acquainted with the Night - A Friend to Glyn Maxwell *±

Robert Frost - Mending Wall - A Friend to Daniel Bee

Robert Frost - Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening - A Friend to Victoria Field *±

Robert Frost - Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening - A Friend to Beti Hand

Robert Frost - The Road Not Taken - A Friend to Jessica Smith

Robert Frost - The Road Not Taken - A Friend to Kelly Banek

Theophile Gautier - L'Art - A Friend to Adrian Brett

Kate Genevieve - Sea Change - A Friend to Prasanna Puwanarajah *±

Sheryl St. Germain - Getting Up Out the Water - A Friend to Lori Stephens

Khalil Gibran - On Children - A Friend to Hafsah Aneela Bashir *±

Khalil Gibran - On Children - A Friend to Danielle Charles

Khalil Gibran - On Marriage - A Friend to India Amos and Samira *

Jack Gilbert - Failing and Flying - A Friend to Wayne Standish

Jack Gilbert - Failing and Flying - A Friend to Gillian Laker

T.H. Gillis - Timeless - A Friend to Joe Dudeck

Carmen Giminez - The Daughter - A Friend to Gita Raleigh *±

Gareth Glyn-Roberts - My Enemy's Enemy is my Friend - A Friend to Gareth Glyn-Roberts

Louise Glück - Scilla - A Friend to Sacha Rosel

Salena Godden - Pessimism is for Lightweights - A Friend to Hannah Jane Walker *±

Salena Godden - This Poem - A Friend to Dan Simpson *

Lorna Goodison - The Domestic Science of Sunday Dinner - A Friend to Malika Booker *

Robert Graves - Flying Crooked - A Friend to Becky Swain

Thom Gunn - On The Move - A Friend to Bert Flitcroft

Thom Gunn - The Hug - A Friend to Sam Burt *

Hafiz, tr. Daniel Ladinsky - Out of God's Hat - A Friend to Mariah Wilde ±

Alyson Hallet - How the World Gets Bigger - A Friend to Roxy Dunn *±

Thich Nhat Hanh - Please call me by my true names - A Friend to Peter Moore

Thomas Hardy - On the Departure Platform - A Friend to Gillian Gregory *

Thomas Hardy - The Walk - A Friend to Cristina Almeida-Unwin

Joy Harjo - Remember - A Friend to Rachel Eliza Griffiths *±

Joy Harjo - She had some horses - A Friend to Marge Piercy

Tony Harrison - Continuous - A Friend to Peter Keane *

Tony Harrison - Turns - A Friend to Maxine Peake *±

Robert Hayden - Those Winter Sundays - A Friend to Matthew Johnson

Seamus Heaney - A Call - A Friend to Michael Burton

Seamus Heaney - A Kite For Aibhín - A Friend to Fiona Bennett *±

Seamus Heaney - Digging - A Friend to Sheila Gallagher

Seamus Heaney - Digging - A Friend to Zahid Hussain

Seamus Heaney - Postscript - A Friend to Simon Kew

Seamus Heaney - Postscript - A Friend to Clem Burrows ±

Seamus Heaney - The Baler - A Friend to Rob Kenny

Seamus Heaney - The Peninsula - A Friend to Sarah Butler

Adrian Henri - Without You - A Friend to Kevan Taplin

Adrian Henri - Without You - A Friend to Julia Bird

George Herbert - Love (III) - A Friend to Julie Batty

George Herbert - Love (III) - A Friend to Jonathan Barnes *

George Herbert - Love (III) - A Friend to Andrew Scott *±

Herman Hesse - Stufen / Steps - A Friend to Martin Kratz

Edward Hirsch - For the Sleepwalkers - A Friend to Anne Caldwell

Jane Hirshfield - For What Binds Us - A Friend to Anna Mark

Tony Hoagland - Little Champion - A Friend to Michael Mark *

Han G. Hoekstra - De Ceder / The Cedar - A Friend to Alida Gersie *

Vladimir Holan - Snow - A Friend to Paul Morran

Jodie Hollander - My Dark Horses - A Friend to Rosie Garland *±

Miroslav Holub - The moth - A Friend to Claudia Orduz *

Gerard Manley Hopkins - Hurrahing in Harvest - A Friend to Christine Webb

Gerard Manley Hopkins - Spring and Fall - A Friend to Anthony Vahni Capildeo *±

Gerard Manley Hopkins - Spring and Fall - A Friend to Philip

A.E. Housman - A Shropshire Lad 31: On Wenlock Edge - A Friend to Serena Trowbridge *±

Marie Howe - The Last Time - A Friend to Reese Zahner

Langston Hughes - Harlem - A Friend to Lennon Mhishi

Langston Hughes - Mother to Son - A Friend to Phoebe Batanda

Ted Hughes - The Bull Moses - A Friend to Katherine Pierpoint

Ted Hughes - The Horses - A Friend to Lewi Martin *

Ted Hughes - The Machine - A Friend to Lily Rosengard

Langston Hughes - The Negro Speaks of Rivers - A Friend to Roy McFarlane *±

Langston Hughes - To F.S. - A Friend to Christine Camorgan

Alexander Hutchinson - Incantation - A Friend to Christie Williamson

Mikhail Ikpoma - When Death Whispers - A Friend to Rukayya Bakari

Elizabeth Jennings - My Grandmother - A Friend to Helen Nicholson

Jenny Joseph - Warning - A Friend to Jan Reed

Hilde Domin, tr. Sarah Kafatou - Only a Rose to Lean On - A Friend to Katrin Dettmer

Sarah Kay - B (If I should have a daughter) - A Friend to Kayleen Plumb

Jackie Kay - In My Country - A Friend to Degna Stone ±

John Keats - Ode to a Nightingale - A Friend to Mike Sims

John Keats - Ode to a Nightingale - A Friend to Brittany Grech ±

Madie Kelley - 555 - A Friend to Alayna Koop

Terry Kelly - Fun in Acapulco - A Friend to Sheila Wakefield

Amy Key - Lousy with unfuckedness, I dream - A Friend to Rishi Dastidar *

Omar Khayaam - Alike for those who for today prepare - A Friend to Firoozeh Fozouni

Rudyard Kipling - If - A Friend to Kim Pickin

Rudyard Kipling - If - A Friend to Alex Gracian

Rudyard Kipling - The Way Through The Woods - A Friend to Linda Collins ±

Philip Larkin - Aubade - A Friend to Jay Lewis

Philip Larkin - Aubade - A Friend to Tom Branfoot *

Philp Larkin - Days - A Friend to Nadine Shah *±

Philip Larkin - Here - A Friend to Grahame Williams

Philip Larkin - Sunny Prestatyn - A Friend to Steve Larkin

Philip Larkin - The Trees - A Friend to Anne

Philip Larkin - This Be The Verse - A Friend to Hannah Brown *

Philip Larkin - Ugly Sister - A Friend to Elaine Cusack

Philip Larkin - Vers de Société - A Friend to Stephen Beresford *±

D.H. Lawrence - Escape - A Friend to Laura Jacobs

D.H. Lawrence - I Am Like A Rose - A Friend to MaryAnne Smith *±

D.H. Lawrence - Mountain Lion - A Friend to Susan Lumsden

D.H. Lawrence - Restlessness - A Friend to Alison McManus *±

Edward Lear - The Jumblies - A Friend to Jill Abram

Li Young Lee - From Blossoms - A Friend to Jessica Stone *

Cecil Day Lewis - Walking Away - A Friend to Alison Priestley and Stephen Evans

Cecil Day Lewis - Walking Away - A Friend to Tony Kinsella

Henry Wandsworth Longfellow - The Song of Hiawatha - A Friend to Robert Justice

Michael Longley - Ceasefire - A Friend to Jacqueline Saphra *

Jane Lovell - Last Breath - A Friend to Helen Pletts

Louis MacNeice - Meeting Point - A Friend to Imtiaz Dharker *

Louis MacNeice - Snow - A Friend to Gill McEvoy

Louis MacNeice - Snow - A Friend to Rosie Trustram

Katherine Mansfield - Pulmonary Tuberculosis - A Friend to Roz Goddard *

Katherine Mansfield - When I was a Bird - A Friend to Sarah Salway ±

Owen Marshall - Fall - A Friend to Charlie Beaumont

Prince Mbele - Butterflies and Goosebumps - A Friend to Prince Mbele

Kathleen McCreary - Let's Play - A Friend to Kathleen McCreary

Gill McEvoy - Sometimes All It Takes - A Friend to Gill McEvoy

Roger McGough - Sad Music - A Friend to Alison MacKenzie

Roger McGough - Ten Milk Bottles - A Friend to David Hann

Andrew McMillan - The Fact We Almost Killed A Badger Is Incidental - A Friend to Christopher R. Moore

Edna St Vincent Millay - Ashes of Life - A Friend to Laura Wade *±

Kei Miller - A Light Song Of Light - A Friend to Clare Shaw

A.A. Milne - The Island - A Friend to Liis Revell *

Lucy Maud Montgomery - Harbor Dawn - A Friend to Ann Lewis ±

Marianne Moore - Blessed is the Man - A Friend to Deirdre Thackray

Edwin Morgan - On the Needle's Point - A Friend to Eric MacLennan

Toni Morrison - Eve Remembering - A Friend to Maria Augusta Arruda *±

Andrew Motion - Salt Water - A Friend to Sarah Bower

Edwin Muir - Transfiguration - A Friend to Margaret Masson *

Pablo Neruda, tr. Robert Hass - Barcarole - A Friend to Mark Rowan *

Pablo Neruda - Don’t Go Far Off, Not Even For A Day - A Friend to Nicola Todhunter

Pablo Neruda - If you forget me - A Friend to Katie Cervenak

Gerard De Nerval - El Desdichado - A Friend to Tim Armstrong

Norman Nicholson - The Whisperer - A Friend to Tom Kelly

Naomi Shihab Nye - Gate A-4 - A Friend to Frances Ainslie

Frank O'Hara - Having A Coke With You - A Friend to Michael Shaeffer *

Frank O'Hara - Having A Coke With You - A Friend to Rishi Dastidar

Frank O'Hara - (Poem) Lana Turner Has Collapsed - A Friend to Harry Jelley *

Frank O'Hara - Morning - A Friend to Tamar Yoseloff *

J. F. Odunjo - Ise L’ogan Ise / Work is the Antidote for Poverty - A Friend to Francesca Edghere

Ben Okri - To An English Friend In Africa - A Friend to Patricia Sumner

Mary Oliver - I will try - A Friend to Barbara Priest

Mary Oliver - Sleeping in the Forest - A Friend to Rachel Levy

Mary Oliver - White Eyes - A Friend to Shelley Fallows

Mary Oliver - Wild Geese - A Friend to Pavlina Morgan

Mary Oliver - Wild Geese - A Friend to Pat Bakey

Mary Oliver - Wild Geese - A Friend to John Siddique

Mary Oliver - Wild Geese - A Friend to Sally Anglesea

Alice Oswald - A Short Story Of Falling - A Friend to Charlie Beaumont *±

Wilfred Owen - Anthem for Doomed Youth - A Friend to Quaisra Shahraz

Wilfrid Owen - Dulce et Decorum est - A Friend to Joolz Sparkes *

Wilfred Owen - Insensibility - A Friend to Francis Salway

Wilfred Owen - Strange Meeting - A Friend to Gary Gach

Ron Padgett - How To Be Perfect - A Friend to Dean Atta

Alberto Caeiro (Fernando Pessoa) - O Guardador de Rebanhos / The Herd-Keeper (VII) - A Friend to Rita

Marge Piercy - Intimacy - A Friend to Jacqueline Kington

Marge Piercy - To Be Of Use - A Friend to Fiona Bennett

Sylvia Plath - Lady Lazarus - A Friend to Michael Clarke

Sylvia Plath - Mushrooms - A Friend to Jennifer Woods * ±

Sylvia Plath - You're - A Friend to Helen Twigg

Edgar Allan Poe - Alone - A Friend to Jan De Wandelaer

Tasha Poslaneic - Labor and Delivery - A Friend to Claudia Barwell

Jacques Prevert - Breakfast - A Friend to Carole Ogden

Sheenagh Pugh - Sometimes - A Friend to Jann Paton

Salvatore Quasimodo - Ed e’subito sera - A Friend to Camila Garzon

Kathleen Raine - The Marriage of Psyche - A Friend to Ann Wilkinson

Adrienne Rich - Diving into the Wreck - A Friend to Andrea Witzke Slot ±

Adrienne Rich - Song - A Friend to Vicky Wilson

Rainer Maria Rilke - First Elegy - A Friend to Rosemary Lee

Rainer Maria Rilke - How Surely Gravity's Law - A Friend to Lisa Rossetti *

Rainer Maria Rilke - What Survives - A Friend to Lois P. Jones *±

Arthur Rimbaud - My Bohemia - A Friend to Isabelle Audiger

Dee Rivaz - Old Friend - A Friend to Dee Rivaz

Christina Rossetti - Goblin Market - A Friend to Rebecca McEwen

Christina Rossetti - Remember - A Friend to Carole Moffat

Christina Rossetti - Remember - A Friend to Georgina Chatfield ±

Mary Ruefle - How I Became Impossible - A Friend to Malavika Sindhu Udayan

Rumi, tr. Coleman Barks - The Guest House - A Friend to Yasmin Ali *±

Carl Sandburg - Cahoots - A Friend to Atar Hadari

Myka Schwanke - I Just Want To Be A Mother - A Friend to Myka Schwanke

Dennis Scott - Fisherman - A Friend to Michael Cooke *

Shannon Anne Script - How Do I Help My Soul Heal - A Friend to Ruby LeGree

George Seferis - Mathios Paskalis Among the Roses - A Friend to John McAuliffe *

Olive Senior - Meditation on Yellow - A Friend to Maggie Harris

Anne Sexton - The Fury of Overshoes - A Friend to Laura Furner *

Jo Shapcott - Of Mutability - A Friend to Hannah Jewell *

Penelope Shuttle - When Happiness returns after a long absence - A Friend to Victoria Field ±

Philip Sidney - Loving in Truth - A Friend to Steve Constable

Eli Siegel - And it does, Marianne - A Friend to Leila Rosen

Vir Singh - I Made My Mind A Beggar’s Bowl - A Friend to Dave Morgan

Lemn Sissay - Invisible Kisses - A Friend to Maggie Atkinson

Stevie Smith - Bag-snatching in Dublin - A Friend to Catherine Howell-Murray

William E. Stafford - A Ritual to Read to Each Other - A Friend to Simon Seligman

Gina Stanton - New Horizon - A Friend to Gina Stanton

Stephan G. Stephansson - Evening - A Friend to Jerry Iwanus

Wallace Stevens - The Idea of Order at Key West - A Friend to Kingsley Bray

Wallace Stevens - The World as Meditation - A Friend to David Lewsey *

Coleman Stevenson - The Accidental Rarefication of Pattern #5609 - A Friend to Robert Eversmann

Rabindranath Tagore - Where the Mind is Without Fear - A Friend to Linda Kader

James Tate - I sat at my desk and contemplated all I had accomplished - A Friend to Taylor Beidler

Edward Thomas - Adlestrop - A Friend to Jane May

Edward Thomas - Adlestrop - A Friend to Hannah Boyle

Dylan Thomas - And Death Shall Have No Dominion - A Friend to Helena Lymbery

Dylan Thomas - Fern Hill - A Friend to Adrian Tissier *±

Dylan Thomas - Fern Hill - A Friend to Linda Nemec

Edward Thomas - Like the touch of rain - A Friend to Martin De Mello

R.S. Thomas - Luminary - A Friend to Tim Knight

Dylan Thomas - Poem in October - A Friend to Alex Pritchard-Jones *

Dylan Thomas - Poem in October - A Friend to Jenny Doe

Dylan Thomas - Poem in October - A Friend to Pat Fairlea

Edward Thomas - Tall Nettles - A Friend to Robbie Burton

Dylan Thomas - The force that through the green fuse drives the flower - A Friend to Angela Smith *

R.S. Thomas - The Other - A Friend to Aziz

Edward Thomas - The Thrush - A Friend to Simon Crompton *

H.D. Thoreau - Different Drum - A Friend to Richard Cathcart

Thomas Transtromer - Alone - A Friend to Paul Sherreard

Saira Viola - Bastard London! - A Friend to Elizabeth James

Derek Walcott - For Sigrid - A Friend to Mark Rowan *

Derek Walcott - Love After Love - A Friend to Jane Edington ±

Derek Walcott - White Egrets (I) - A Friend to Nick Makoha *

Connie Wanek - Free Pens - A Friend to Sarah Rowbotham

Andrew Waterman - Our Meetings - A Friend to Diana Bennett

Maureen Weldon - Small Seaside Cottage In West Cork - A Friend to Maureen Weldon

Kenneth White - Intellectual Gathering - A Friend to Sarah Salway

Walt Whitman - Oh Captain! My Captain! - A Friend to Farah Karim-Cooper *±

Walt Whitman - Song of Myself (V) - A Friend to Andrea Holland *±

Walt Whitman - To a Pupil - A Friend to Eve Thompson

David Whyte - Sometimes - A Friend to Maya Morgan

David Whyte - Start Close In - A Friend to Elizabeth Boag

Marianne Williamson - Our Deepest Fear - A Friend to Ivy Glavee

Elizabeth Willis - Arthur in Egypt - A Friend to Eric Weiskott

Vicky Wilson - Eight Hours Old - A Friend to Vicky Wilson

Christian Wiman - Good Lord The Light - A Friend to Krista Tippett *±

William Wordsworth - The Prelude (Book I, ll. 354-74) - A Friend to Charlotte Weber ±

William Wordsworth - There Was A Boy - A Friend to Joe Hedinger ±

W.B. Yeats - A Cradle Song - A Friend to Chiara Stanziani

W.B. Yeats - Ephemera - A Friend to Derylyn Owen

W.B. Yeats - He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven - A Friend to Ceni Owen

W.B. Yeats - The Lake Isle Of Innisfree - A Friend to Sue Lawther *±

W.B. Yeats - The Lake Isle Of Innisfree - A Friend to Tom Heavey *

W.B. Yeats - The Lake Isle Of Innisfree - A Friend to Martin Heaney *

W.B. Yeats - The Second Coming - A Friend to Dominic Birch *

Saadi Yousef - Candle - A Friend to Helen Chadwick

Reese Zahner - Residency - A Friend to Reese Zahner

Benjamin Zephaniah - Dis Poetry - A Friend to Roy McFarlane *

Raúl Zurita - INRI - A Friend to Ruth Goring