Poetry from Songs of Ourselves Volume 1
01
Aphra Behn, ‘Song: Love Armed’
02
Sujata Bhatt, ‘A Different History’
03
William Blake, ‘The Chimney-Sweeper’
04
Elizabeth Brewster, ‘Where I Come From’
05
Boey Kim Cheng, ‘Report to Wordsworth’
06
Gillian Clarke, ‘Lament’
07
Kevin Halligan, ‘The Cockroach’
08
Seamus Heaney, ‘Follower’
09
Liz Lochhead, ‘Storyteller’
10
Charles Mungoshi, ‘Before the Sun’
11
Katherine Philips, ‘A Married State’
12
Alexander Pope, From ‘An Essay on Man’
13
Carol Rumens, ‘Carpet-weavers, Morocco’
14
William Shakespeare, ‘Sonnet 18’
15
Judith Wright, ‘Hunting Snake’
Poetry from Songs of Ourselves Volume 2
01
Nancy Fotheringham Cato, ‘The Road’
02
Sarah Jackson, ‘The Instant of My Death’
03
Arun Kolatkar, ¡¥The Bus¡¦
04
Julius Chingono, ‘At the Bus Station’
05
Imtiaz Dharker, ‘These are the Times We Live in’
06
Elizabeth Jennings, ‘The Enemies’
07
Sampurna Chattarji, ‘Boxes’
08
W H Auden, ‘The Capital’
09
Arthur Yap, ‘an afternoon nap’
10
Elizabeth Smither, ‘Plaits’
11
Elizabeth Daryush, ‘Children of Wealth’
12
Thomas Love Peacock, ‘Rich and Poor or, Saint and Sinner’
13
Musaemura Zimunya, ‘A Long Journey’
14
Stevie Smith, ‘Touch and Go’
15
George Szirtes, ‘Song’
Poems in Kumukanda, by Kayo Chingonyi (Chatto & Windus)
01
The Colour of James Brown’s Scream
02
Broomhall
03
The N Word (I.)
04
Waves
05
A Proud Blemish
06
Andrews Corner
07
¡¥Round Midnight
08
This poem contains gull song
09
Fisherman’s Song
10
Some Bright Elegance
11
Curfew
12
Kumukanda
13
Grief
14
Kung’anda
15
Baltic Mill
Prose
01
Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart
02
Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice
03
Anita Desai Fire on the Mountain
04
Kiran Desai Hullaballoo in the Guava Orchard
05
Susan Hill I’m the King of the Castle
06
Harper Lee To Kill a Mockingbird
07
H G Wells The War of the Worlds
Prose from Stories of Ourselves Volume 2
01
no. 3 Christina Rossetti, ‘Nick’
02
no. 14 Olive Schreiner, ‘The Woman’s Rose’
03
no. 26 Ralph Ellison, ‘The Black Ball’
04
no. 30 Mulk Raj Anand, ‘The Gold Watch’
05
no. 35 Margaret Atwood, ‘When It Happens’
06
no. 37 J G Ballard, ‘The Man Who Walked on the Moon’
07
no. 38 Jamaica Kincaid, ‘A Walk to the Jetty’
08
no. 40 Jane Gardam, ‘Showing the Flag’
09
no. 47 Aminatta Forna, ‘Haywards Heath’
10
no. 49 Romesh Gunesekera, ‘Fluke’
Texts
01
Pearl Cleage Blues for an Alabama Sky
02
Shelagh Delaney A Taste of Honey
03
William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night’s Dream
04
William Shakespeare Antony and Cleopatra
05
Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire
