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MAHON, DEREK: ‘Dreams of a Summer Night’ by kind permission of the author and The Gallery Press, Loughcrew, Oldcastle, County Meath, Ireland from New Selected Poems (2016); translation © Derek Mahon from The Word Exchange (ed. Greg Delanty and Michael Matto), W. W. Norton & Company
MAXWELL, GLYN: ‘Flood Before and After’ © Glyn Maxwell reproduced by kind permission of Picador
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MITCHELL, ADRIAN: ‘Celia, Celia’ © The Estate of Adrian Mitchell reprinted by kind permission of Bloodaxe Books
MITCHELL, ELMA: ‘Thoughts After Ruskin’ first published by Peterloo Poets in The Poor Man in the Flesh (1976)
MORGAN, EDWIN: ‘Midge’; ‘Sir James Murray’; ‘Camedolia’ © Estate of Edwin Morgan reprinted by kind permission of Carcanet Press Ltd, Manchester, UK
MORRISSEY, SINÉAD: ‘In Belfast’ © Sinéad Morrissey reprinted by kind permission of Carcanet Press Ltd, Manchester, UK
MUIR, EDWIN: ‘The Late Wasp’ and ‘The Interrogation’ taken from Collected Poems © Estate of Edwin Muir and reprinted with permission of Faber & Faber
MULDOON, PAUL: ‘Incantata’ taken from Selected Poems 1968–2014 © Paul Muldoon and reprinted with permission of Faber & Faber; translation © Paul Muldoon with permission of Faber & Faber
NAGRA, DALJIT: ‘Our Town with the Whole of India!’ taken from Look We Have Coming to Dover! © Daljit Nagra and reprinted with permission of Faber & Faber
NÍ CHUILLEANÁIN, EILEEN: ‘Swineheard’ by kind permission of the author and The Gallery Press, Loughcrew, Oldcastle, County Meath, Ireland from Selected Poems (2008)
NÍ DHOMNAILL, NUALA: by kind permission of the author and The Gallery Press, Loughcrew, Oldcastle, Country Meath, Ireland from Pharoah’s Daughter (1990)
NICHOLSON, NORMAN: ‘The Elm Decline’ from Collected Poems reprinted by permission of Faber & Faber
NORRIS, LESLIE: ‘Barn Owl’; ‘Water’ © Meic Stephens
O’BRIEN, SEAN: ‘Cousin Coat’ © Sean O’Brien reproduced by kind permission of Picador
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O’DONOGHUE, BERNARD: translation © Bernard O’Donoghue reproduced by permission of the author and Faber & Faber
OSWALD, ALICE: ‘Another Westminster Bridge’ taken from Woods etc © Alice Oswald and reprinted with permission of Faber & Faber
PATERSON, DON: ‘A Private Bottling’ taken from God’s Gift to Women © Don Paterson and reprinted with permission of Faber & Faber
PLATH, SYLVIA: ‘The Bee Meeting’; ‘Blackberrying’ taken from Collected Poems © Estate of Sylvia Plath and reprinted with permission of Faber & Faber
POTTER, CLARE: translation © Clare Potter
PUGH, SHEENAGH: ‘I think someone might write an elegy’ © Sheenagh Pugh from Selected Poems (Seren 1990)
RAINE, KATHLEEN: ‘Northumbrian Sequence: IV’ © The Literary Estate of Kathleen Raine from Collected Poems (2000)
READ, HERBERT: ‘To a Conscript of 1940’ © the Estate of Herbert Read from Selected Poetry (Sinclair-Stevenson)
REED, HENRY: ‘Lessons of War’ © Royal Literary Fund
REES-JONES, DERYN: ‘Liverpool Blues’, © Deryn Rees-Jones reprinted by kind permission of Seren Books
REID, ALASTAIR: ‘Scotland’ © Alastair Reid reproduced with permission from Inside Out – Selected Poetry and Translations (Polygon 2008)
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RILEY, DENISE: ‘Poor Snow’ © Denise Riley reproduced from No Fee (Street Editions, 1977)
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INDEX OF POETS AND TRANSLATORS
Abse, Dannie (1923–2014) 527, 528
Adam, Jean (1710–65) 181
Adcock, Fleur (b.1934) 564
Agard, John (b.1949) 593
Agbabi, Patience (b.1965) 658
Allnutt, Gillian (b.1949) 595
Alvi, Moniza (b.1954) 624
Aneirin (6/7th c.) 9
Angus, Marion (1866–1946) 388, 389
Anon 3, 4, 6, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 33, 34, 35, 36, 50, 52, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 73, 74, 119, 132, 134, 136, 140, 161, 162, 180, 186, 192, 308, 309, 310
Armitage, Simon (b.1963) 50, 651
Armstrong, Martin (1882–1974) 350
Arnold, Matthew (1822–88) 277
Askew, Anne (1521–46) 76
Aston, Katherine (c.1620s–50s) 149
Auden, W. H. (1907–73) 23, 409, 411, 414
Bacon, Anne (?1528–1610) 78
Baillie, Joanna (1762–1851) 217
Barbauld, Anna Laetitia (1743–1825) 189
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p; Bateman, Meg (b.1959) 73
Beckett, Samuel (1906–89) 393
Bede (672–3) 11
Beer, Patricia (1924–99) 529
Bellerby, Frances (1899–1975) 447, 448
Belloc, Hilaire (1870–1953) 334, 335
Bentley, E. C. (1875–1956) 339
Bernstein, Marion (1846–1906) 306
Berry, James (b.1924) 559
Blake, William (1757–1827) 207, 208, 209
Boast, Rachel (b.1975) 667
Boland, Eavan (b.1944) 17, 584
Borodale, Sean (b.1973) 665
Breeze, Jean ‘Binta’ (b.1956) 629
Bridges, Robert (1844–1930) 303, 304
Brontë, Emily (1818–48) and Charlotte (1816–55) 269
Brown, George Mackay (1921–96) 519, 521
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett (1806–61) 257, 258, 259
Browning, Robert (1812–89) 270, 271, 272
Bryce, Colette (b.1970) 663
Bunting, Basil (1900–85) 483
Burns, Robert (1759–96) 212, 213, 215, 216
Burnside, John (b.1955) 627
Byron, Lord (1788–1824) 238, 239
Caedmon (fl.658–680) 3
Cameron, Mary (17th c.) 159
Campion, Thomas (1567–1620) 104, 105
Carney, James (1914–89) 29
Carroll, Lewis (1832–98) 290
Carson, Ciaran (b.1948) 592
Causley, Charles (1917–2003) 505
Cavendish, Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle (1623–73) 158
Chamberlain, Brenda (1912–71) 472
Chaucer, Geoffrey (1340–1400) 41, 42, 43
Chesterton, G. K. (1874–1936) 338
Clancy, Joseph P. (b.1928) 9, 450
Clare, John (1793–1864) 244, 247
Clarke, Austin (1896–1974) 65
Coghill, Nevill (1899–1980) 42, 43
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772–1834) 232, 235
Conran, Anthony (Tony) (1931–2013) 3, 11, 45, 59, 63, 545
Constantine, David (b.1944) 581
Cope, Wendy (b.1945) 588
Copeland, James (1918–2002) 471
Cornford, Frances (1886–1960) 399
Cowper, William (1731–1800) 187, 188
Crabbe, George (1754–1832) 205
Crawford, Robert (b.1959) 637
Crichton Smith, Ian (1928–98) 534, 535, 536
Crossley-Holland, Kevin (b.1941) 13
Crotty, Patrick 4
Cruickshank, Helen B. (1886–1975) 400
Dafydd ab Edmwnd (fl.1450–80) 59
Dafydd ap Gwilym (c.1340) 44, 45
Davies, Idris (1905–53) 391, 392
Davies, W. H. (1871–1940) 336
de la Mare, Walter (1873–1956) 336, 337
Dharker, Imtiaz (b.1954) 622
Donne, John (1572–1632) 115, 116, 117
Dooley, Maura (b.1957) 636
Douglas, Keith (1920–44) 432
Downie, Freda (1929–93) 537
Draycott, Jane (b.1954) 52
Drayton, Michael (1563–1631) 94
Duhig, Ian (b.1954) 620
Dunbar, William (?1456–?1513) 61
Dunn, Douglas (b.1942) 575
Durcan, Paul (b.1944) 583
Earle, Jean (1909–2002) 385
Edgar, Marriott (1880–1951) 346
Eliot, T. S. (1888–1965) 369, 374
Elizabeth I (1553–1603) 78, 79
Evans, Margiad (1909–58) 461
Fainlight, Ruth (b.1931) 561
Fanshawe, Catherine Maria (1765–1834) 211
Fanthorpe, U. A. (1929–2009) 539
Farley, Paul (b.1965) 658
Fergusson, Robert (1750–75) 196, 199
Fisher, Roy (b.1930) 560
Fitzgerald, Earl Gerald (1335–98) 49
Francis, Matthew (b.1956) 30
Fyge, Sarah (1670–1723) 168
Garioch, Robert (1909–81) 463, 464, 465
Gascoyne, David (1916–2001) 429
Gay, John (1685–1732) 174
Gershon, Karen (1923–93) 526
Glyn, Ifor ap (b.1961) 643
Godley, A. D. (1856–1925) 312
Graham, W. S. (1918–86) 491, 494, 495
Graves, Robert (1895–1985) 443, 444
Gray, Thomas (1716–71) 184
Greene, Robert (1558–82) 93
Greenlaw, Lavinia (b.1962) 648
Greenwell, Dora (1821–82) 283
Gregory, Lady Augusta (1852–1932) 35
Gunn, Thom (1929–2004) 538
Gurney, Ivor (1890–1937) 358, 359, 359
Gwenallt Jones, D. (1899–1968) 446
Hamer, Richard 11, 20
Hamilton, Janet (1795–1873) 248, 250
Hardy, Thomas (1840–1928) 294, 296, 297
Harvey, F. W. (1888–1957) 382
Heaney, Seamus (1939–2013) 6, 12, 17, 28, 33, 54, 57, 62, 138, 164, 171, 195, 550, 552, 553, 554
Heath-Stubbs, John (1918–2006) 506
Henri, Adrian (1932–2000) 481
Henry, Paul (b.1959) 638
Henryson, Robert (1425–1500) 54, 57
Herbert, George (1593–1633) 129, 130, 131
Herbert, W. N. (b.1961) 642
Herrick, Robert (1591–1674) 124, 127, 128
Hill, Geoffrey (1932–2016) 547
Hogg, James (1770–1835) 221, 222
Hollis, Matthew (b.1971) 16
Hopkins, Gerard Manley (1844–89) 299, 300, 301, 302
Housman, A. E. (1859–1936) 314, 315
Hughes, Ted (1930–98) 540, 541, 542
Humphreys, Emyr (b.1919–) 456
Ingelow, Jean (1830–97) 284
Jackson, Kenneth Hurlstone (1909–91) 22, 25, 49
Jacob, Violet (1863–1946) 315
Jamie, Kathleen (b.1962) 647
Jennings, Elizabeth (1926–2001) 531, 532, 533
Johnson, Linton Kwesi (b.1952) 614
Jones, David (1895–1974) 403
Jones, Gwyn (1871–1949) 34, 309
Jonson, Ben (1572–1637) 106, 108, 111
Joyce, James (1882–1941) 378
Kavanagh, Patrick (1904–67) 454, 456
Kay, Jackie (b.1961) 639
Keats, John (1795–1821) 251, 255, 256
Kennelly, Brendan (b.1936) 564
Kipling, Rudyard (1863–1936) 316
Kitchener Davies, J. (1902–53) 450
Kunial, Zaffar (b.1972) 668
Langland, William (1332–86) 47
Larkin, Philip (1922–85) 522, 523
Lawrence, D. H. (1885–1930) 394, 395, 397
Lear, Edward (1812–88) 285, 287
Ledwidge, Francis (1887–1970) 407
Leonard, Tom (b.1944) 587
Lewis, Alun (1915–44) 425, 426, 428
Lochhead, Liz (b.1947) 589
Logue, Christopher (1926–2011) 480
Longley, Michael (b.1939) 181, 619, 565
Lowry, Malcolm (1909–57) 420, 421, 422
Mac an Bhaird, Laoiseach (fl.late 16th c.) 138
Mac Cuarta, Séamas dall (1650–1733) 164
Macaulay, Rose (1881–1958) 357
MacCaig, Norman (1910–96) 497, 498, 499
MacDiarmid, Hugh (1892–1978) 386, 387
MacDonald, Alexander (1695–1770) 178
McGonagall, William (1825–1902) 281
McGuckian, Medbh (b.1950) 596
Mackinnon, Lachlan (b.1956) 628
MacLeod, Mary (c.1616–c.1706) 144
MacNeacail, Aonghas (b.1942) 578, 578
MacNeice, Louis (1907–63) 417, 419, 420
Maguire, Sarah (b.1957) 633
Mahon, Derek (b.1941) 26, 568
Maitland, Sir Thomas (1522–72) 77
Marlowe, Christopher (1564–93) 96
Marvell, Andrew (1621–78) 146, 148
Maxwell, Glyn (b.1962) 645
Meehan, Paula (b.1955) 626
Mew, Charlotte (1869–1928) 327, 329, 332, 333
Meynell, Alice (1847–1922) 307
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nbsp; Milton, John (1608–74) 142
Minhinnick, Robert (b.1952) 616
Mitchell, Adrian (1932–2008) 483
Mitchell, Elma (1919–2000) 509
Monro, Harold (1879–1932) 344, 345
Morgan, Edwin (1920–2010) 510, 511, 513
Morrissey, Sinéad (b.1972) 666
Morus, Huw (1622–1709) 155
Muir, Edwin (1887–1959) 401, 402
Muldoon, Paul (b.1951) 3, 598
Nagra, Daljit (b.1966) 660
Ní Chuilleanáin, Eiléan (b.1942) 578
Ní Dhomnaill, Nuala (b.1952) 619
Nicholson, Norman (1914–87) 503
Norris, Leslie (1921–2006) 44, 515, 517
O’Brien, Sean (b.1952) 618
O’Connor, Frank (1903–66) 15, 20, 24, 27, 170
O’Donoghue, Bernard (b.1945) 47
Ó Dornín, Peadar (1700–69) 181
O’Kelly, Pat (1754–1812) 202
Ó Rathaille, Aodhágan (1670–1729) 170, 171
Ó Súilleabháin, Eoghan Rua (1748–84) 195
Oliphant, Caroline (1766–1845) 219, 220
Orr, James (1779–1852) 237
Oswald, Alice (b.1966) 661
Owen, Wilfred (1893–1918) 360, 361, 363, 364
Paterson, Don (b.1963) 654
Philips, Katherine (1632–64) 160
Pitter, Ruth (1897–1992) 445
Plath, Sylvia (1932–63) 473, 476
Pope, Alexander (1688–1744) 177
Potter, Clare 643
Pugh, Sheenagh (b.1950) 597
Radford, Dollie (1858–1920) 313
Raine, Kathleen (1908–2003) 459
Read, Herbert (1893–1968) 408
Reed, Henry (1914–86) 422
Rees Jones, Deryn (b.1968) 662
Reid, Alastair (1926–2014) 531
Richmond, E. B. 41
Ridler, Anne (1912–2001) 469
Riley, Denise (b.1948) 593
Riordan, Maurice (b.1953) 22
Roberts, Lynette (1909–95) 466, 468
Robinson, Mary (1758–1800) 209
Rosenberg, Isaac (1890–1918) 355, 356
Rossetti, Christina (1830–94) 278, 280
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