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Beyond Booked Up: Introducing Performance Poetry
20 recommended poems for performance
These poems are a mix of classic and contemporary, but all of them are well suited to performance because of their regular rhythms, imagery, and humour.
Oscar Wilde, ‘The Ballad of Reading Gaol’ (we suggest that you choose an excerpt from this): http://www.gutenberg.org/files/301/301-h/301-h.htm
William Wordsworth, ‘I wandered as lonely as a cloud’ (‘Daffodils’):