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 poet here.

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

A Call by Seamus Heaney - A Friend to Michael Burton

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Adlestrop by Edward Thomas - A Friend to Jane May

Adlestrop by Edward Thomas - A Friend to Hannah Boyle

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

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

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

Alone by Thomas Transtromer - A Friend to Paul Sherreard

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Aubade by Philip Larkin - A Friend to Jay Lewis

Aubade by Philip Larkin - A Friend to Tom Branfoot *

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

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

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

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

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

Brahma by Ralph Emerson - A Friend to Ditte

Breakfast by Jacques Prevert - A Friend to Carole Ogden

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

Cahoots by Carl Sandburg - A Friend to Atar Hadari

Candle by Saadi Yousef - A Friend to Helen Chadwick

Ceasefire by Michael Longley - A Friend to Jacqueline Saphra *

Cider Story by Peter Didsbury - A Friend to Jonathan Davidson

Compost by Dan Chelotti - A Friend to Alice Bryant *

Continuous by Tony Harrison - A Friend to Peter Keane *

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

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

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

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

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

Digging by Seamus Heaney - A Friend to Sheila Gallagher

Digging by Seamus Heaney - A Friend to Zahid Hussain

Dining by Douglas Dunn - A Friend to Sarah Salway

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Fall by Owen Marshall - A Friend to Charlie Beaumont

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

Fern Hill by Dylan Thomas - A Friend to Linda Nemec

Final Sightings by Mary Connely - A Friend to Graeme Oswald

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

Fisherman by Dennis Scott - A Friend to Michael Cooke *

Flying Crooked by Robert Graves - A Friend to Becky Swain

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

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

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

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

Free Pens by Connie Wanek - A Friend to Sarah Rowbotham

Friendship by Carrie Williams Clifford – A Friend to Delphine Gray ±

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

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

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

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

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

Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti - A Friend to Rebecca McEwen

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

Grief by Matthew Dickman - A Friend to Rowena Knight *

Hair by Elizabeth Acevedo - A Friend to Fiyin Okupe

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

Happiness by Raymond Carver - A Friend to Martin Zarrop

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

Harlem by Langston Hughes - A Friend to Lennon Mhishi

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

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

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

Here by Philip Larkin - A Friend to Grahame Williams

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If by Rudyard Kipling - A Friend to Kim Pickin

If by Rudyard Kipling - A Friend to Alex Gracian

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

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

In Paris by Charles Bane - A Friend to Clara Macri

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

Incantation by Alexander Hutchinson - A Friend to Christie Williamson

INRI by Raúl Zurita - A Friend to Ruth Goring

Insensibility by Wilfred Owen - A Friend to Francis Salway

Intellectual Gathering by Kenneth White - A Friend to Sarah Salway

Intimacy by Marge Piercy - A Friend to Jacqueline Kington

Invisible Kisses by Lemn Sissay - A Friend to Maggie Atkinson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath - A Friend to Michael Clarke

Last Breath by Jane Lovell - A Friend to Helen Pletts

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

Late Fragment by Raymond Carver - A Friend to Jean Laurie

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mending Wall by Robert Frost - A Friend to Daniel Bee

Midlands Kids by Jane Commane - A Friend to Peter Raynard

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

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

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

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

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

My Bohemia by Arthur Rimbaud - A Friend to Isabelle Audiger

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

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

My Grandmother by Elizabeth Jennings - A Friend to Helen Nicholson

Narcicissm by Salma Abdulatif - A Friend to Salma Kauthar

New Horizon by Gina Stanton - A Friend to Gina Stanton

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

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

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

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

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

Old Friend by Dee Rivaz - A Friend to Dee Rivaz

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

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

On Children by Khalil Gibran - A Friend to Danielle Charles

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

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

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

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

One Art by Elizabeth Bishop - A Friend to Suzanne Iuppa

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

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

Our Meetings by Andrew Waterman - A Friend to Diana Bennett

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

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

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

Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou - A Friend to Haya Genawi

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

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

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

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

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

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

Postscript by Seamus Heaney - A Friend to Simon Kew

Postscript by Seamus Heaney - A Friend to Clem Burrows ±

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

Prayer by Carol Ann Duffy - A Friend to Rommi Smith

Princes End by Liz Berry - A Friend to Steve Harrison

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

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

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

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

Remember by Christina Rossetti - A Friend to Carole Moffat

Remember by Christina Rossetti - A Friend to Georgina Chatfield ±

Requiem Mass by Nikki Bennett - A Friend to Nikki Bennett

Residency by Reese Zahner - A Friend to Reese Zahner

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

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

Rhondda Grey by Max Boyce - A Friend to Roy Thomas

Sad Music by Roger McGough - A Friend to Alison MacKenzie

Salt Water by Andrew Motion - A Friend to Sarah Bower

Scilla by Louise Glück - A Friend to Sacha Rosel

Scything by Gilian Clarke - A Friend to Holly Rivers

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

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

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

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

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

Snow by Vladimir Holan - A Friend to Paul Morran

Snow by Louis MacNeice - A Friend to Gill McEvoy

Snow by Louis MacNeice - A Friend to Rosie Trustram

Sometimes by David Whyte - A Friend to Maya Morgan

Sometimes by Sheenagh Pugh - A Friend to Jann Paton

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

Song by Adrienne Rich - A Friend to Vicky Wilson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Strange Meeting by Wilfred Owen - A Friend to Gary Gach

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

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

Sunny Prestatyn by Philip Larkin - A Friend to Steve Larkin

Take a Poem by James Carter - A Friend to Juliana

Take Hands by Fiona Bennett - A Friend to Fiona Bennett

Tall Nettles by Edward Thomas - A Friend to Robbie Burton

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

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

The Baler by Seamus Heaney - A Friend to Rob Kenny

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Guest House by Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks - A Friend to Yasmin Ali *±

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

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

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

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

The Jumblies by Edward Lear - A Friend to Jill Abram

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

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

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

The Lamb by William Blake - A Friend to Sally Anglesea

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

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

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

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

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

The Machine by Ted Hughes - A Friend to Lily Rosengard

The Malarkey by Helen Dunmore - A Friend to Dave Wilkinson

The Map by Elizabeth Bishop - A Friend to Tom Bird

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

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

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

The Note by Jane Draycott - A Friend to Robbie Burton

The Orange by Wendy Cope - A Friend to Emily Escott

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

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

The Peninsula by Seamus Heaney - A Friend to Sarah Butler

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Trees by Philip Larkin - A Friend to Anne

The Tryst by Jean Brossard - A Friend to Françoise Deconinck

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

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

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

The Whisperer by Norman Nicholson - A Friend to Tom Kelly

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

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

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

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

This Moment by Eavan Boland - A Friend to Matthew Dickman

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Transfiguration by Edwin Muir - A Friend to Margaret Masson *

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

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

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

Ugly Sister by Philip Larkin - A Friend to Elaine Cusack

Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy - A Friend to Sean Carr

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

Voyages II by Hart Crane - A Friend to Subhadassi ±

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

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

Warning by Jenny Joseph - A Friend to Jan Reed

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

White Eyes by Mary Oliver - A Friend to Shelley Fallows

Wild Geese by Mary Oliver - A Friend to Pavlina Morgan

Wild Geese by Mary Oliver - A Friend to Pat Bakey

Wild Geese by Mary Oliver - A Friend to John Siddique

Wild Geese by Mary Oliver - A Friend to Sally Anglesea

Without You by Adrian Henri - A Friend to Kevan Taplin

Without You by Adrian Henri - A Friend to Julia Bird

Xanadu by Simon Armitage - A Friend to Natasha Jenkins

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

555 by Madie Kelley - A Friend to Alayna Koop