Rhyme & Reason

Recently Radio 4 featured the programme Rhyme and Reason, where different artists talks about their favourite poems. I haven't studied poetry since university and in my day to day routine find little time to sit quietly and read at all let alone poetry. Despite this I do own a large amount of poetry books and this programme made me think about the poems that I have read and think about which ones I would include in my own list.
    I want to focus on the choices made by a couple of the artists featured on the show. Singer, Songwriters; Tori Amos and Florence Welch were the first two artists featured on the show. I love their music I've listed their choices below, I'd love to know what your choices would be.

 Tori Amos

1) Introduction to the poetry compilation "Slam" by Tori Amos

2) "The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe

3) "Hanged Men Dancing" by Jean-Nicolas-Arthur Rimbaud

4) "Lady Lazarus" by Sylvia Plath

5) "The Laughing Heart" by Charles Bukowski

6) "The Eve of St Agnes" by John Keats

7) "Blueberry Girl" by Neil Gaiman

8) "I'm Nobody, Who Are you?" by Emily Dickinson


Florence Welch

1) "I do not Speak" by Stevie Smith

2) "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot

3) "The Nightingale and the Rose" by Oscar Wilde

4) " Lovesong" by Ted Hughes

5) "Here Bullet" by Brian Turner

6) "Her Kind" by Anne Sexton