Wiston 2016 poems
As best as I can remember, here are the poems-of-the-day that I recited at our singing sessions:
As If to Demonstrate An Eclipse – by Billy Collins
http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2003/02/18
Celia, Celia – by Adrian Mitchell
http://www.poetryatlas.com/poetry/poem/3179/celia,-celia.html
Permanently – by Kenneth Koch
http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2004/03/21
Really Eternal City – by George Bilgere
http://writersalmanac.org/episodes/20150321/
Sonnet 30 – by William Shakespeare
https://amidonchoralmusic.com/product/sonnet-30/
Sonnet 18 – by William Shakespeare (I didn’t do this poem, but thought you might find this interesting.)
https://amidonchoralmusic.com/product/sonnet-18/
Star System – by Clive James
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/03/16/star-system
That Element of Tragedy – from Middlemarch by George Eliot
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/134704-that-element-of-tragedy-which-lies-in-the-very-fact