Essential Pleasures: A New Anthology of Poems to Read Aloud – Ed. Robert Pinksy (W. W. Norton & Company)

Ellen Voigt, “The Hen”; William Cowper, “Lines Written During a Period of Insanity”; Stevie Smith, “Not Waving but Drowning” and “Thoughts About the Person from Porlock”; Robert Duncan, “My Mother Would Be a Falconress”; Stuart Dischell, “Days of Me”; Sir Walter Raleigh, “On the Cards and Dice” and “Epitaph on the Earl of Leicester”.