Poetry Breakfast

at Aardvark Books

Sunt Leones by Stevie Smith was read by Ali

From New Selected Poems. Copyright © 1972 by Stevie Smith. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46840/sunt-leones 

Ordinary Saints by Malcolm Guite was read by Janet
https://www.plough.com/en/topics/culture/poetry/ordinary-saints 

The Musical Instrument by Elizabeth Barrett Browning was read by Joyce
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43729/a-musical-instrument 

St Catherine by Gerda Stevenson was read by Donald 

The Canonization by Les Murray was read by Tim
https://www.firstthings.com/article/2011/05/the-canonization

Portrait of an Artist as a Prematurely Old Man by Ogden Nash was read by Cynthia
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/portrait-of-the-artist-as-a-prematurely-old-man/  

Count that Day Lost by George Eliot was read by Jane 

Saints and Sinners by Changu Chilwesa
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/saints-and-sinners-3/

Saint Joan of Arc on a postcard by Margaret Atwood

Questions About Angels by Billy Collins was read by Bert
From Billy Collins, “Questions About Angels” Copyright © 1991 Billy Collins. All rights are controlled by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Reprinted with the permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press
Source: Questions about Angels: Poems (University of Pittsburgh Press, 1991)

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