1. Complete Review
- basic bio
- reviews of most of Hill’s published works
2. poetrymagazines.co.uk
- excellent review of Hill’s ‘The Triumph of Love’ entitled ‘“Pardon?”: Our Problem with Difficulty (and Geoffrey Hill)’.
3. literaryhistory.com
- useful bibliography and some links
Popularity: 33% [?]
1. Adam Lindsay Gordon Commemorative Committee
- official website
2. Literary Heritage West Midlands
- brief biography
3. Poem Hunter
- selection of Adam Lindsay Gordon’s poems
Popularity: 34% [?]
- biography, recordings, news and much more
- Muldoon’s publisher
- short biography and list of publications in print with short descriptions
- interesting profile / interview with Muldoon
Popularity: 8% [?]
1. Teachnet
- an excellent resource for students
- contains audio snippets, sample poems, theme comparison and a lot more
2. The Guardian
- a detailed review of Longley’s Collected Poems
Popularity: 8% [?]
1. Gathering the Jewels
- an excellent Welsh culture website
- contains scans of handwritten letters and proofs of some poems
2. BBC Wales
- a short biography
3. Project Gutenberg
- download Davies’ poetry volume ‘Foliage’
Note: W.H. is short for William Henry
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Popularity: 8% [?]
1. steviesmith.org
- not an official site but contains a lot of useful information
- can be a little difficult to navigate
2. Strange Attractor
- another site dedicated to Smith
- contains a detailed biography
3. Poem Hunter
- view a number of Smith’s poems
Note: Stevie was born Florence Margaret Smith in 1902
Popularity: 8% [?]
1. The Guardian
- a fascinating profile of Hardy’s last years and regrets after his first wife’s death
2. The Thomas Hardy Association
- the poem of the month discussions are a goldmine for students in particular
3. Britain Express
- a useful biography of Hardy
Popularity: 8% [?]
1. BBC - Southhampton - Voices
- listen to some of Barnes’ poems being read
2. William Barnes Society
- very little info on the site at this stage but promises much more in the near future
3. Poem Hunter
- large number of Barnes’ poems for viewing
Popularity: 8% [?]
1. University of Newcastle
- main attraction on this page is Kipling’s complete works online
2. The Kipling Society
- an excellent biography and picture gallery
- the ‘Kipling File’ section is an excellent resource containing a number of essays and discussions about Kipling and his work
Popularity: 7% [?]
1. Simon Armitage Official Site
- a comprehensive site maintained by the author
2. Sonnets.org
- an interview with Armitage from 2002
3. Poetry Archive
- another interview covering approach to writing and other thoughts on poetry
4. Simon Armitage translates Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Popularity: 7% [?]
1. Nobel Prize.org
- a brief biography
2. University of Georgia
- an excellent resource page with a mass of links
- has links to audio and poetry samples
Popularity: 8% [?]
Poem One
If moths had eyes,
Would they be happier?
How do they know they’re not dead?
Cave men hunting for food,
But not before,
They style the hair on their head
What would last longer,
in dinosaur times?
A blind man didn’t stand a chance,
Not with all them rocks about.
I’d rather be a blind moth.
(Copyright 2006 Karl Pilkington)
Poem Two>
Bubbled wallpaper,
What a mess.
Washer - dryer knackered,
What a mess.
Siamese twins separated,
One leg less.
(Copyright 2006 Karl Pilkington)
Poem Three
I don’t like Jellyfish, they’re not a fish, they’re just a blob.
They don’t have eyes, skin or scales like a cod,
They float about blind, stinging people in the seas,
And no-one eats Jellyfish with chips and mushy peas,
Get rid of them
(Copyright 2006 Karl Pilkington)
Poem Four
It would be spiteful,
To put Jellyfish in a trifle
(Copyright 2006 Karl Pilkington)
Popularity: 13% [?]
1. George Mackay Brown Official Website
- not the easiest site to navigate but has an immense amount of information
- complete works index, scans of handwritten work sheets
- essays and writings about Brown
Popularity: 7% [?]
1. John Betjeman Official Website
- biography, samples, events, detailed bibliography and current publications
2. The Betjeman Society
- more biography, sample poems and publications for sale (via Amazon.com)
3. The Poetry Archive
- audio recordings of two Betjeman poems - “A Subaltern’s Love Song” and “Youth and Age on Beaulieu River”
Popularity: 6% [?]
1. Wikipedia
- a very short biography
2. New York Times
- a brief obituary/biography
3. National Portrait Gallery
- four pictures of Ewart
Popularity: 6% [?]