I have placed these poems in the final version of Poemspotter although the publisher will make the end decision once the book is completed.

 

Acrostics:

Introducing the Octopus  Patricia Laighton

(Taken from The Works and awaiting my publisher contacting them)

Edgar Allan Poe   Christina M.

Proverb   Esther Wheatley

 

Action:

A Poem For Dogs & How To Write Poems   Adrian Mitchell

The Wizard said….   Richard Edwards

These are Grandmother's glasses  Dorothy Labensohn

Eight Brand New Angels        Brian Patten

(Publisher to contact all these when publication date nears)

 

Alphabet:

ABC, THEY SAID ...  Celia Warren

A VAMPIRE WITH 'L' PLATES     Hilary Mellon

A to Z   Michaela Morgan

And possibly  A Colossal Glossary         Paul Muldoon

 

Ballad:

And Shall Trelawny Die?   R S Hawker

(The Puffin Book of Classic Verse 95/97)

Piping down the valleys wild    William Blake

 

Blank Verse:

from Nutting    William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)

From Dido           Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)

from The Old Cumberland Beggar   William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850)

from Doctor Faustus   Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)

From Volpone   Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)

from Hamlet     William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

 

Calligram:

My Neighbour  Esther E. Wheatley

Risky Business    Carol MacAllister

Only lonely stones     Celia Warren

Persian Calligram by Giles de Laval

Haiku   Mike Wilson

 

Chant:

Jumping - Nancy Bennett

Marching Song by Robert Louis Stevenson

Visitors - Esther E. Wheatley

The Stone Troll by J R R Tolkein

Bread Chant - Julie Ibdali

 

Choral:

The Golden Road    James Elroy Flecker

(from The Puffin Book of Classic Verse 97)

Overheard on a Saltmarsh   Harold Munro   (New Faber)

Swaps    Allan Ahlberg    (Please Mrs Butler – Penguin)

Me and You (Actually I think it is untitled)      Michael Rosen

(Wouldn’t You Like To Know – Scholastic Children’s Books)

(Publisher to contact all these when publication date nears)

 

Cinquain:

Mirror Lake, Autumn Pond, Passing the Accident, Deborah P. Kolodji

A Cinquain Of Birds, Hilary Mellon

Highways, Tony Morris

Perfection, Susan Richardson

For the Wash, Angela Topping

Anger, Esther E Wheatley

Sunny, Celia Warren

All others are anonymous or by Adelaide Crapsey (Died 1914) or myself.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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