THE SEALEY CHALLENGE 2024

 In order of reading: 

Day 1: ‘Ten Years in an Open Necked Shirt’ by John Cooper Clarke

Day 2: ‘The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy’ by Tim Burton

Day 3: ‘Kid’ by Simon Armitage

Day 4: Magma 87 - Islands

Day 5: Musical Tables by Billy Collins

Day 6: Poetry Review Winter 2023 by The Poetry Society

Day 7: ‘Collected Poems’ by Christopher Okigbo

Day 8: ‘Fugitive Poetry’ by Nathaniel Parker Willis

Day 9: ‘Love, Smoke, Ghosts’ by A. X. Salvo 

Day 10: ‘Nothing In This World Is Free, Just Poetry’ by Darren Hobson

Day 11: ‘Free Spirit Trapped’by Matthew Marchon

Day 12: George Orwell The Complete Poetry

Day 13: Great American Poets Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Day 14: ‘The Good Child’s Guide to Rock ‘n’ Roll’ by Carol Ann Duffy

Day 15: ‘Midnight in the City of Clocks’ by Tobias Hill

Day 16: ‘Cat Poems’ by The World’s Greatest Poets

Day 17: ‘Human Tissue’ by Hilary Menos

Day 18: Rattle Summer 2024

Day 19: In Her Voice: The 2020 Poetry Anthology

Day 20: Poetry Review Autumn 2023

Day 21: ‘Penguin’s Poems by Heart’ Ed. by Laura Barker

Day 22: Zoom by Simon Armitage

Dsy23: ‘Selling Manhattan’ by Carol Ann Duffy

Day 24: ‘Clouded Thoughts’ by Michael Froilon

Day 25: ‘Sonnets to Orpheus and Duino Elegies’ by Rainer Maria Rilke

Day 26: ‘The Poetic Edda’ Trans. by Carolynne Larrington

Day 27: ‘Horses Make a Landscape Look More Beautiful’ by Alice Walker

Day 28: ‘The Ewart Quarto’ by Gavin Ewart

Day 29: ‘That Awkward Age’ by Roger McGough

Day 30: ‘Off the Shelf’ by Carol Ann Duffy

Day 31: ‘Xanadu’ by Simon Armitage