I can create a programme of poetry to suit the occasion or the needs of the group depending on whether it is a performance, a workshop or a lecture. Below are examples of porgrammes I have performed recently.

American poetry presentation at the Midwest Literary Arts Festival Aurora, Illinois USA originally performed on 5th October 2007

‘The Daniel Jazz’ by Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931)

‘Concord Hymn’ by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

‘A dream within a dream’ and ‘Annabel Lee’ by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

‘I like my body when it is with your body’ and ‘i carry your heart with me’  
by e e cummings (1894-1962)

‘I will not die an unlived life’ by Dawna Markova, US poet, psychotherapist, writer and long-term cancer survivor

‘Slow Dance’ (This anonymous poem was written by a terminally ill young girl in a New York Hospital)

‘The Road Not Taken’ and ‘The Gift Outright’ by Robert Frost (1874-1963)

‘Darest Thou Now, O Soul’ by Walt Whitman (1819-1892) from Leaves of Grass published 1900 - this poem was used by Ralph Vaughan Williams in his choral work ‘Towards the Unknown Region
 
‘If you were coming in the fall’, ‘After great pain, a formal feeling comes’
and ‘I hide myself within my flower’ by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

‘Kitchen Trinity’ by Kathleen Norris (b1947) author of ‘Dakota: a spiritual geography’

‘The Shirt’, ‘The Visit’ and ‘Alone for a week’ by Jane Kenyon (1947-1995)

‘Passers-by’, ‘Onion days’ and ‘Fog’ by Carl Sandburg (1878 –1967)

‘Sometimes during eternity’ by Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b1919)

‘A Caution To Everybody’ and ‘A Word to Husbands’ by Ogden Nash (1902-1971)

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Short general poetry presentation originally performed in June 2007
at the G66+ Arts Festival, Kirkintilloch, Scotland 

‘The Daniel Jazz’ by Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931)

‘There are holes in the sky’ Spike Milligan (1918-2002)

‘Beowulf’ (extract) author unknown 

‘Prologue to “The Canterbury Tales”’ (in Old English and Modern English)
by Geoffrey Chaucer (c1343-1400)

‘All the world’s a stage’ (As You Like It Act 2 Scene 7) by William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

'No man is an island’ (from Meditation XVII) and ‘A Hymne To God The Father’ by John Donne (1572-1631)

'Lines Written On A Banknote’ (written in 1786) Robert Burns

‘Dulce et Decorum Est’ by Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)

‘To begin at the beginning’ (from Under Milk Wood) by Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)

‘The Absence’ by R.S.Thomas (1930-2000)

'Emperors of the Island’ by Dannie Abse (b1923)