Getting Nearer

Here are a few more contenders for my Nearing Forty challenge. A fair few short poems amongst them as I'm trying to be kind to myself. I did think about adding 'The Loch Ness Monster's Song' but I figured that might be a bit too tricky so I've gone for Edwin Morgan's beautiful 'Strawberries' instead. 

There are some poems that haven't made it on to the list as I can't find copies online (Jacob Polley 'The Tree' and Andrew Waterhouse 'Not an Ending'). I'm going to try and find a few more before my birthday and then begin the task of selecting the final forty.  

I should probably add a couple of out and out performance pieces too... a quick trawl through the Apples and Snakes list of poets might be good place to start.

How to Cut a Pomegranate by Imtiaz Dharkar

For a Five-Year-Old by Fleur Adcock

Jarrow by Carol Rumens

Judith by Vicki Feaver

In My Country by Jackie Kay

You’re by Sylvia Plath

He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven by WB Yeats

Fear by Charles Simic

Darling by Jackie Kay

Strawberries by Edwin Morgan

A Note by Wislawa Symborska

Harlem by Langston Hughes

Memory by Ruth Stone

Although the Wind by Izumi Shikibu

Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Poem by Simon Armitage

Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen

The Dug-out by Siegfried Sassoon