by Ben Holden
Rhys, Jean, 395–8, 485
Rich, Adrienne, 290, 485–6
‘Rip Van Winkle’ (Irving), 191–215
Robinson, Tim, 302–4, 486
Robinson, Tony, 287, 289
Roethke, Theodore, 398–9, 486
Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 325–6, 486–7
Running in the Family (Ondaatje), 147–8
Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de, 308–10, 487
‘Scheherazade’ (Murakami), 367–94
Sculptor’s Daughter (Jansson), 277–81
‘The Second Tree from the Corner’ (White), 226–33
Shakespeare, William, 184, 277, 451, 487
‘She Frequented Cemeteries’, 330–4
Shire, Warsan, 305–6
Simic, Charles, 21–2, 488
Singer, Isaac Bashevis, 219–25, 488
‘A Single Night’ (Tagore), 23–31
‘The Sleepout’ (Murray), 121–2
‘The Songs I Had’ (Gurney), 295
Spark, Muriel, 336–40, 488
Speak, Memory (Nabokov), 145
Stallings, A. E., 55–6, 488
‘Stealing Up’ (O’Donoghue), 419
Stevens, Wallace, 1
Stevenson, R. L., 80, 488–9
‘The Student’ (Chekhov), 320–5
‘Summer Dawn’ (Morris), 424
Tagore, Rabindranath, 22–31, 489
‘The Tale of King Yunan and the Sage Duban’ (Anon.), 82–91
‘The Tale of the Washer’ (Robinson), 302–4
Tan Twan Eng, 307, 308
Taylor, Elizabeth, 123–9, 489
The Tempest (Shakespeare), 184, 277, 451
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 170–1, 489–90
‘They Sit Together on the Porch’ (Berry), 39
Thomas, Edward, 57–8, 161–2, 490
Thurber, James, 79–80, 490
Tolkien, J. R. R., 58–9
‘Transformation’ (Jenkins), 306
Treisman, Deborah, 366–7, 394
‘True Love’ (Olds), 365–6
‘The Tyger’ (Blake), 286–7
Updike, John, 412, 490–1
‘The Voyage’ (Mansfield), 149–60
Walter, Jess, 268–70, 491
Warner, Marina, 81, 91
White, E. B., 226–33, 491
Whitman, Walt, 32–4, 491
‘Who Are You?’ (Ephron), 216–18
Wilbur, Richard, 237, 491–2
The Wild Places (Macfarlane), 291–4
Wilde, Oscar, 92–103, 492
Williams, Hugo, 57, 492
Wind, Sand and Stars, 308–10
Wodehouse, P. G., 424–46, 492–3
Wolff, Tobias, 64, 493
Woolf, Virginia, 243–6, 493
‘The Word Shed’ (McCann), 60–3
Wright, James, 38–9, 493
Yates, Richard, 419–23, 494
Yeats, W. B., 307–8, 315
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Introduction
Lines from ‘The House was Quiet and the World was Calm’ from The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens by Wallace Stevens, copyright © 1954 by Wallace Stevens and copyright renewed 1982 by Holly Stevens. Used by permission of Faber and Faber Ltd and Alfred A Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
Eventide
‘In The Evening’ by Billy Collins from The Trouble with Poetry: and Other Poems, copyright © 2005 by Billy Collins. Used by permission of Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.
‘Let Evening Come’ by Jane Kenyon from Collected Poems, copyright © 2005 by The Estate of Jane Kenyon. Reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company, Inc. on behalf of Graywolf Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota, www.graywolfpress.org
‘Evening Walk’ by Charles Simic from Hotel Insomnia, copyright © 1992 Charles Simic. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin & Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
‘A Single Night’ from Selected Short Stories by Rabindranath Tagore, translated by William Radice (Penguin Books 1991, revised edition, 1994), copyright © William Radice 1991, 1994.
‘After Apple Picking’ from The Poetry of Robert Frost by Robert Frost, copyright © 1939, 1969 by Henry Holt and Company, copyright © 1958 by Robert Frost, copyright © by Lesley Frost Ballantine. Reprinted by permission of Henry Holt and Company, LLC and The Random House Group Ltd. Also published by Jonathan Cape. All rights reserved.
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‘Old Bud’ by James Wright from Above The River: The Complete Poems copyright © 1990, by James Wright. Reprinted by permission of The University of Wesleyan.
‘They Sit Together on the Porch’ by Wendell Berry, copyright © 1998 by Wendell Berry, from A Timbered Choir. Reprinted by permission of Counterpoint.
Extract from Night by A. Alvarez, copyright © 1995 by A. Alvarez. Used by permission of the author and W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
Once Upon a Time
‘Another Bedtime Story’ by A. E. Stallings from Olives: Poems, copyright © 2012 by A. E. Stallings. Published 2012 by TriQuaterly Books/Northwestern University Press. All rights reserved.
Extract from Peter and Wendy by JM Barrie (1911), by arrangement with Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity. In 1929, J. M. Barrie gifted the rights to Peter Pan to Great Ormond Street Hospital and since then the timeless adventures of Peter Pan and Wendy have contributed towards making the hospital an incredible centre of hope for children all over the world.
‘Lights Out’ by Hugo Williams from Collected Poems (2005), reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber, Ltd.
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‘The Word Shed’ by Colum McCann, copyright © Colum McCann 2014, used by permission of The Wylie Agency (UK) Limited.
‘Powder’ from The Night in Question: Stories by Tobias Wolff, copyright © 1996 by Tobias Wolff. Used by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, a division of Random House LLC, and by International Creative Management Partners. All rights reserved.
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‘Fable’ from Collected Poems 1951-2001 by Charles Causley, copyright © David Higham Associates Ltd. Reprinted with permission of David Higham Associates Ltd.
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‘Diamonds and Pearls: A Fairy Tale’ by Neil Gaiman, copyright © 2009 by Neil Gaiman. First published in Who Kill
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‘The Sleepout’ from The Rabbiter’s Bounty by Les Murray, copyright © 1992, by Les Murray. Reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC and Carcanet Press Ltd.
‘The Idea of Age’ by Elizabeth Taylor, copyright © Beneficiaries of Elizabeth Taylor 1975. Originally published in Complete Short Stories by Virago. Reprinted by permission of the rights holder.
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Hook, Line and Sinker
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‘Dusko’s Taverna 1967’ from Book of Longing by Leonard Cohen, copyright © 2006 by Leonard Cohen, art copyright © by Leonard Cohen. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Penguin Books Ltd, and McLelland & Stewart, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited.
‘Harbour’ from Running in the Family by Michael Ondaatje, copyright © 1982 by Michael Ondaatje. Reprinted by permission of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc.
‘The Pipe’ from Collected Poems by Stéphane Mallarmé, translated by Henry Weinfeld, copyright © 1995 by the Regents of the University of California. Published by, and reprinted here by permission of, the University of California Press.
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The Dead Spot
Excerpt from ‘Aubade’ from The Complete Poems of Philip Larkin, edited by Archie Burnett, copyright © 2012 by the estate of Philip Larkin. Used by permission of Faber and Faber Ltd and Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC.
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‘A Barred Owl’ from Mayflies: New Poems and Translations by Richard Wilbur, copyright © 2000 by Richard Wilbur. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Be Not Afeard
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‘Dreamtigers’ by Jorge Luis Borges, from Collected Fictions, copyright © 1998 by Maria Kodema. Translation by Andrew Hurley, copyright © 1998, by Andrew Hurley. Reprinted by permission of Penguin Random House LLC and The Wylie Agency.
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‘Dreamwood’ from The Fact of a Doorframe: Selected Poems (1950–2001) by Adrienne Rich, copyright © 2002, 1989 by Adrienne Rich. Used by permission of W. W. Norton & Company, Inc and The Frances Goldin Literary Agency.
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‘Transformation’ from Dreams of Flight (2011) by Myehsha Jenkins, copyright © 2011 by Myesha Jenkins. Reprinted by permission of the poet. All rights reserved.
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Tread Softly
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‘Going Up and Coming Down’ from The Complete Short Stories by Muriel Spark, published by Canongate. Reprinted by permission of David Higham Associates Ltd. All rights reserved.
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Ashore
‘Morning Song’ from Collected Poems by Sylvia Plath, edited by Ted Hughes, copyright © 1960, 1965, 1971, 1981 by the Estate of Sylvia Plath. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers and Faber and Faber Ltd. All rights reserved.
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