The Poems
The following poems are likely to be used in the Changing Lives performance, with permission of the copyright holders:
Holding Hands in the Movie Show by Connie Bensley
Hedgehog by Polly Clark
Common and Particular by David Constantine
In Defence of Adultary by Julia Copus
The Barn by Peter Didsbury
The Playground by Maura Dooley
Dancing at Oakmead Road by Maura Dooley
This Love by Nick Drake
All the things you are not yet by Helen Dunmore
Wild Strawberries by Helen Dunmore
Amber by Tua Forsstrom
Failing and Flying by Jack Gilbert
Please Can I Have a Man by Selima Hill
The World’s Entire Wasp Population by Selima Hill
The Weighing by Jane Hirshfield
Nymph by Matthew Hollis
Wintering by Matthew Hollis
Late Love by Jackie Kay
Somebody Else by Jackie Kay
The Spare Room by Jackie Kay
I See You Dancing Father by Brendan Kennelly
A Glimpse of Starlings by Brendan Kennelly
Promissory Note by Galway Kinnell
Starlight by Philip Levine
Nonsense Wedding by Joanne Limburg
The Married Man’s Poem by Alden Nowlan
This Is What I Wanted to Sign Off With by Alden Nowlan
Between by Micheal O’Siadhail
Famine by Leanne O’Sullivan
Poem for My Future Love by Clare Pollard
In-Patient by Carole Satyamurti
Here by Ken Smith
My father fading out by Ken Smith
The Ringing Chamber by Pauline Stainer
A Marriage by Anne Stevenson
