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One of my favourite action poems – one that makes you feel as if you’re riding hell for leather across the Australian outback. And by a poet called Banjo! What more could anyone want?
Welcome to the latest edition of Gavin Scott Presents, a selection of my favourite prose and poetry. This week, “To His Coy Mistress”, by Andrew Marvell, who came from my home town of Kingston upon Hull in Yorkshire. The poem is packed with phrases you’ll instantly recognise because other people have snapped them up to insert in their own works, starting with the first line “had we but world and time enough” and going on to the remark that “the grave’s a fine and private place”. The poem as a...
Happy New Year! And to get 2019 off to a good start, here are two of my favourite poems about the sea from British Poet Laureate John Masefield
Gavin reads three poems for Christmas by Robert Bridges, Thomas Hardy and Henry Longfellow