The poems:
- 1 Sujata Bhatt, A Different History
- 2 Gerard Manley Hopkins, Pied Beauty
- 3 Allen Curnow, Continuum
- 4 Edwin Muir, Horses
- 5 Judith Wright, Hunting Snake
- 6 Ted Hughes, Pike
- 7 Christina Rossetti, A Birthday
- 8 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The Woodspurge
- 9 Kevin Halligan, The Cockroach
- 10 Margaret Atwood, The City Planners
- 11 Boey Kim Cheng, The Planners
- 12 Norman MacCaig, Summer Farm
- 13 Elizabeth Brewster, Where I Come From
- 14 William Wordsworth, Composed Upon Westminster Bridge