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In order to encourage the use of a wide range of poems, poems which have been used in Poetry in Stitches previously are now ineligible. The list of the poems which now CANNOT be used is as follows:
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A Day by the Sea
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Elizabeth Bewick
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A New Home for Saxons
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Alma Lusby
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A Picturesque Dream in Goathland
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Louisa Saunders
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A Red, Red Rose
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Robert Burns
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A Slash of Blue
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Emily Dickinson
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A Tent
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Christopher Reid
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A Windy Day
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Andrew Young
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Abbey Ruins
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Margaret Crosfield
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Abou Ben Adhem
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James Leigh Hunt
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Adlestrop
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Edward Thomas
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After Dark at Yachtsman's Cottage
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Richard Stewart
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Ah! Sunflower
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William Blake
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An Essay on Man
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Alexander Pope
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An Otter
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Ted Hughes
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Arrival 1946
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Moniza Alvi
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Blazing in Gold and Quenching in Purple
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Emily Dickinson
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Bulbs
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Maggie Butt
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Catch a Snowflake if You Can
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Elizabeth Bewick
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Celtic Benediction
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J.P. Newell
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Cherry Tree at Dusk
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Stewart Conn
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Chill
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J.R.Prynne
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Circle Poem
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Alec Finlay
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Coal Fire
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Louis Untermeyer
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Daffodils
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William Wordsworth
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de Profundis
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Christina Rossetti
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Delight in Disorder
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Robert Herrick
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Do not Stand at my Grave and Weep
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Anon
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Doing the Big Bang Theory
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Matt Nunn
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Doormat
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Daphne Schiller
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Dragonfly
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Ted Hughes
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Dream Eclipses Reality
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Dee Rimbauld
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Empty
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Delia Garrod
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Enigma
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Con Connell
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Fast Bowler
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Tony Turner
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Footprints
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Anon
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For Sale
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W.H. Davies
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Handbag
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Ruth Fainlight
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Harvest Time
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Con Connell
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Hawk in the Grey Morning
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Mollie Mayson
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He wishes for the Cloth of Heaven
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W.B. Yeats
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Home Thoughts from Abroad
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Robert Browning
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Hymn on the Morning of Christ's Nativity
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John Milton
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i carry your heart with me
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E. E. Cummings
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I Would Not Have You Perfect
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Joan Goodall
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In Flanders Field
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John McCrae
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In Memoriam : Friday October 16th 1987
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Richard Stewart
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Iona
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Kenneth C. Steven
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Is my team ploughing …
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A.E. Housman
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Ivy
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Jose Segal
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Jewels of Love
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Medieval
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Joy
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Eve Jackson
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Just One More
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Con Connell
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Learn to Make the Best of Life
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Anon
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Leisure
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W.H. Davies
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Love
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George Herbert
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Love in a Cold Climate
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Con Connell
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Marigolds
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Helen Clare
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Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary
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Traditional
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Millstone Quarry
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Isobel M. Campbell
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Mist
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Henry David Thoreau
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Mrs Southern's Enemy
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Osbert Sitwell
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My Country
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Dorothea MacKellar
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My Last Duchess
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Robert Browning
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Naming of Parts
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Henry Reed
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New Every Morning
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Susan Coolidge
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Night Time
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Adam Kyles
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Nocturne
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Richard Stewart
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Oberon’s Feast
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Robert Herrick
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On Change of Weathers
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Francis Quarles
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On Midsummer’s Eve
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Ann Bonner
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On the Ning Nang Nong
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Spike Milligan
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Partings
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I.K. Leavers
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Peace
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Henry Vaughan
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Petra
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John William Burgon
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Planetary Alignment
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Con Connell
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Psalm 23
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Biblical
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Questions in Eden
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Joan Kingston
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Rainbow
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Pippa Hardy
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Red Gleam
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Prue FitzGerald
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Redstart in a Welsh Wood
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Mike Mockler
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Reward & Punishment
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Roger McGough
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River Deben
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Richard Stewart
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Rock me to Sleep
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Elizabeth Allen
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Sanctuary
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Lizette Woodworth Reese
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Sea Fever
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John Masefield
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Seascapes
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Sue Flawn
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She Walks in Beauty
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George Gordon Lord Byron
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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unknown
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So, we'll go no more a-roving...
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George Gordon Lord Byron
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Soft Icing
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Heigham Jarvis
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Sound of Song
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Dawn M. Ashcroft
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Spell to Bring a Smile
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John Agard
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Stitched Together Over Time
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Rebecca Atherton
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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
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Robert Frost
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Streetwonders
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Peter Williamson
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Sunset
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Rainer Maria Rilke
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Tea
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Carol Ann Duffy
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Tempo
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Spike Milligan
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Thank you
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Kathleen Partridge
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Thankfulness for Water
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Helen McNicoll
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Thaw
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Edward Thomas
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The Cat and the Moon
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W.B. Yeats
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The Cello Player
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Harriet Green
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The Charge of the Light Brigade
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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The Dandelion
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Christopher Daniel
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The Gate of the Year
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Minnie Louise Haskins
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The Green Man
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Mike Harding
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The Highwayman
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Alfred Noyes
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The Lake Isle of Innisfree
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W.B. Yeats
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The Land of Counterpane
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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The Last Week in October
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Thomas Hardy
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The Lily
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William Blake
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The Little Dancers
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Laurence Binyon
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The Long Awaited Snowdrop
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Doreen E. Davis
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The Loom of Time
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Anon
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The Newcomer
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Brian Patten
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The Old Vicarage, Grantchester
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Rupert Brooke
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The Other Side of the Valley
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Idris Caffrey
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The Owl
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
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The Owl and the Pussycat
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Edward Lear
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The Pied Piper
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Robert Browning
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The Pig
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Anon
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The Quangle Wangle's Hat
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Edward Lear
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The Snail
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James Reeves
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The Spoken Word
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Edie Suarez
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The Story of Creation
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Gillian Wright
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The Sun has Burst the Sky
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Jenny Joseph
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The Swing
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Robert Lewis Stevenson
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The Tiger
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William Blake
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The Vanishing Zebra
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Con Connell
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The Voyage with the Nautilus
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Mary Howitt
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There’s a Poem Hiding in Wan’s Fish & Chip Shop
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Pauline Hand
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To a Skylark
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Today’s Tomorrow
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Pat Moon
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Traditional Prize County Pigs
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Wendy Cope
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Tree Prayer
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Traditional Australian
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Trees
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Joyce Kilmer
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Valentine
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Carol Ann Duffy
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Warning
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Jenny Joseph
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Waters of March
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Antonio Carlos Jobim
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When Earth’s Last Picture…
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Rudyard Kipling
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When Earth’s Last Picture…
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Rudyard Kipling
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Wild Geese
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Mary Oliver
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Wind Farm
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Tony Lucas
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Windmills of the Night
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Dawn Ashcroft
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Windy Nights
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Robert Louis Stevenson
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Winter
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William Shakespeare
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If you would like a source of different poems to choose from, the NNA has produced a new booklet of over 100 poems to inspire you to stitch. If you would like a copy send £3.00 to the NNA – See ‘Contact us’ page for address
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