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Poems on BBC World Service
We commissioned four leading contemporary poets to write a poem especially for BBC World Service, drawing inspiration from four well-known and much-loved lyric poems.
Andrew MotionAndrew Motion
On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer, by John Keats
Jackie KayJackie Kay
Porphyria's Lover, by Robert Browning
Paul MuldoonPaul Muldoon
Ozymandias, by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Fleur AdcockFleur Adcock
Old Man, by Edward Thomas
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