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Poetry Books Read in 2025
In order of reading:
Day 1 Forward Book of Poetry 2024
Day 2 ‘No Matter How It Ends A Blackbird’s Song’ by Kal Lehmann
Day 3 ‘Sailing to an Island’ by Richard Murphy
Day 4 ‘Chlorophyll’ by Raymond Luczak
Day 5 ‘The Universal Home Doctor’ by Simon Armitage
Day 6 ‘Songs of Innocence and Experience’ by William Blake
Day 7 'Alfonsina and the Sea: Selected Poems of Alfonsina Storni and Poems of Love' by Alfonsina Storni
Day 8 ‘We Sail Paper Boats’ Foyle Young Poets of the Year Anthology 2025 The Poetry Society
Day 9 'Morning Glory on the Vine' by Joni Mitchell
Day 10 ‘Lupercal’ by Ted Hughes
Day 11 'Poetry: a Very Short Introducton' by Bernard O'Donoghue
Day 12 'Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair' by Pablo Neruda
Day 13 ‘Blossomise’ by Simon Armitage
Day 14 ‘The Luckiest Guy Alive’ by John Cooper Clarke
Day 15 ‘Mean Time’ by Carol Ann Duffy
Day 16 ‘At Blackwater Pond: Mary Oliver reads Mary Oliver’ by Mary Oliver
Day 17 ‘The Heeding’ by Rob Cowen
Day 18 ‘Cautionary Verses’ by Hilaire Belloc
Day 19 ‘Melting into the Foreground’ by Roger McGough
Day 20 ‘Forward Book of Poetry 2025’ by Various Poets
Day 21 'Many Milles: Mary Oliver reads Mary Oliver’ by Mary Oliver
Day 22 'Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass' by Lana Del Ray
Day 23 ‘Dwell’ by Simon Armitage
Day 24 ‘Poems About The Ocean’ by Eleanor Rayne
Day 25 ‘Through the Square Window’ by Sinéad Morrissey
Day 26 'Sailing Alone Around the Room' by Billy Collins (US Poet Laureate)
Day 27 ‘Let the light pour in’ by Lemn Sissay
Day 28 ‘Plum’ by Hollie McNish
Day 29 'What' by John Cooper Clarke
Day 30 ‘Defying Gravity’ by Roger McGough
Day 31 ‘The Night is Darkening Round Me’ by Emily Brontë