Daily Poetry Readings
To offer some comfort, inspiration and reflection during recent uncertain times, Dr Iain McGilchrist shared a poetry reading each day. A sample can be found below. The full 365 poetry readings on YouTube can be found here.
![Daily Poetry Reading #1 ‘A Spell for Creation’ by Kathleen Raine](https://channelmcgilchrist.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Daily-Poetry-1.jpg)
Daily Poetry Reading #1 ‘A Spell for Creation’ by Kathleen Raine
Running Time: 2:16
![Daily Poetry Reading #2: ‘Proud Songsters’ by Thomas Hardy](https://channelmcgilchrist.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Daily-Poetry-2.jpg)
Daily Poetry Reading #2: ‘Proud Songsters’ by Thomas Hardy
Running Time: 1:07
![Daily Poetry Reading #3 ‘Coming’ by Philip Larkin](https://channelmcgilchrist.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Daily-Poetry-3.jpg)
Daily Poetry Reading #3 ‘Coming’ by Philip Larkin
Running Time: 1:16
![Daily Poetry Reading #4 ‘The Solitary Reaper’ by William Wordsworth](https://channelmcgilchrist.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Daily-Poetry-4.jpg)
Daily Poetry Reading #4 ‘The Solitary Reaper’ by William Wordsworth
Running Time: 2:32
![Daily Poetry Reading #5 ‘Canopus’ by Bert Leston Taylor](https://channelmcgilchrist.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Daily-Poetry-5.jpg)
Daily Poetry Reading #5 ‘Canopus’ by Bert Leston Taylor
Running Time: 2:32
![Daily Poetry Reading #6 ‘I So Like Spring’, ‘Sea Love’ and ‘A Quoi Bon Dire’ by Charlotte Mew](https://channelmcgilchrist.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Daily-Poetry-6.jpg)
Daily Poetry Reading #6 ‘I So Like Spring’, ‘Sea Love’ and ‘A Quoi Bon Dire’ by Charlotte Mew
Running Time: 2:25
![Daily Poetry Reading #7 ‘Good and Clever’ by Elizabeth Wordsworth](https://channelmcgilchrist.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Daily-Poetry-7.jpg)
Daily Poetry Reading #7 ‘Good and Clever’ by Elizabeth Wordsworth
Running Time: 0:52
![Daily Poetry Reading #8 ‘The Self Unseeing’ by Thomas Hardy](https://channelmcgilchrist.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Daily-Poetry-8.jpg)
Daily Poetry Reading #8 ‘The Self Unseeing’ by Thomas Hardy
Running Time: 1:28
![Daily Poetry Reading #9 ‘The Hammers’ and ‘Stupidity Street’ by Ralph Hodgson](https://channelmcgilchrist.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Daily-Poetry-9.jpg)
Daily Poetry Reading #9 ‘The Hammers’ and ‘Stupidity Street’ by Ralph Hodgson
Running Time: 1:47
![Daily Poetry Reading #10: ‘The Sun Rising’ by John Donne](https://channelmcgilchrist.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Daily-Poetry-10.jpg)
Daily Poetry Reading #10: ‘The Sun Rising’ by John Donne
Running Time: 1:55
![Daily Poetry Readings #11: Two Untitled Poems by Emily Dickinson](https://channelmcgilchrist.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/DP-11.jpg)
Daily Poetry Readings #11: Two Untitled Poems by Emily Dickinson
Running Time: 1:57
![Daily Poetry Reading #12: ‘The Relic’ by John Donne](https://channelmcgilchrist.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/DP12.jpg)
Daily Poetry Reading #12: ‘The Relic’ by John Donne
Running Time: 2:15
![Daily Poetry Readings #13: ‘To Sleep’ and ‘This Living Hand’ by John Keats](https://channelmcgilchrist.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/DP13.jpg)
Daily Poetry Readings #13: ‘To Sleep’ and ‘This Living Hand’ by John Keats
Running Time: 2:42
![Daily Poetry Readings #14: ‘The Hardness Scale’ by Joyce Peseroff](https://channelmcgilchrist.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/DP-14.jpg)
Daily Poetry Readings #14: ‘The Hardness Scale’ by Joyce Peseroff
Running Time: 2:56
![Daily Poetry Reading #15: Two Poems by Sir Thomas Wyatt](https://channelmcgilchrist.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/DP-18.jpg)
Daily Poetry Reading #15: Two Poems by Sir Thomas Wyatt
Running Time: 3:42
![Daily Poetry Reading #16: ‘London Snow’ and ‘Spring Goeth All in White’ by Robert Bridges](https://channelmcgilchrist.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/DP-16.jpg)
Daily Poetry Reading #16: ‘London Snow’ and ‘Spring Goeth All in White’ by Robert Bridges
Running Time: 4:07
![Daily Poetry Reading#17 ‘Simplify Me When I’m Dead’ by Keith Douglas](https://channelmcgilchrist.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/DP-17.jpg)
Daily Poetry Reading#17 ‘Simplify Me When I’m Dead’ by Keith Douglas
Running Time: 2:16
![Daily Poetry Reading #15: Two Poems by Sir Thomas Wyatt](https://channelmcgilchrist.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/DP-18.jpg)
Daily Poetry Readings #18: ‘There Are Bad Times Just Around’ the Corner by Noel Coward
Running Time: 3:24
![Daily Poetry Readings #19: ‘Two in the Campagna’ by Robert Browning read](https://channelmcgilchrist.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/DP-19.jpg)
Daily Poetry Readings #19: ‘Two in the Campagna’ by Robert Browning read
Running Time: 4:27
![Daily Poetry Reading #20: ‘At Castle Boterel’ by Thomas Hardy](https://channelmcgilchrist.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/DP-20.jpg)
Daily Poetry Reading #20: ‘At Castle Boterel’ by Thomas Hardy
Running Time: 2:39
![Daily Poetry Reading #21: ‘The Cool Web’ by Robert Graves](https://channelmcgilchrist.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/DP-21.jpg)
Daily Poetry Reading #21: ‘The Cool Web’ by Robert Graves
Running Time: 1:36
![Daily Poetry Reading #22: ‘Short Ode to the Cuckoo’ by W.H. Auden](https://channelmcgilchrist.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/DP-22.jpg)
Daily Poetry Reading #22: ‘Short Ode to the Cuckoo’ by W.H. Auden
Running Time: 1:21
![Daily Poetry Reading #23: ‘The Sorrows of Werther’ by William Thackeray](https://channelmcgilchrist.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/DP23.jpg)
Daily Poetry Reading #23: ‘The Sorrows of Werther’ by William Thackeray
Running Time: 2:10
![Daily Poetry Reading #24 ‘Fern Hill’ by Dylan Thomas](https://channelmcgilchrist.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/DP24.jpg)
Daily Poetry Reading #24 ‘Fern Hill’ by Dylan Thomas
Running Time: 4:00
![Daily Poetry Reading #25: ‘The Trouble with Poetry’ by Billy Collins](https://channelmcgilchrist.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/DP25.jpg)
Daily Poetry Reading #25: ‘The Trouble with Poetry’ by Billy Collins
Running Time: 2:06
![Daily Poetry Reading #26: ‘Ignorance’ by Philip Larkin](https://channelmcgilchrist.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/DP26.jpg)
Daily Poetry Reading #26: ‘Ignorance’ by Philip Larkin
Running Time: 1:06
![Daily Poetry Reading #27: ‘Farewell to Kurdistan’ by Rosemary Tonks](https://channelmcgilchrist.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/DP27.jpg)
Daily Poetry Reading #27: ‘Farewell to Kurdistan’ by Rosemary Tonks
Running Time: 5:04
![Daily Poetry Reading #28: ‘Thoughts About the Person from Porlock’ by Stevie Smith](https://channelmcgilchrist.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/DP28.jpg)
Daily Poetry Reading #28: ‘Thoughts About the Person from Porlock’ by Stevie Smith
Running Time: 3:39
![Daily Poetry Reading #29: ‘Vergissmeinnicht’ by Keith Douglas](https://channelmcgilchrist.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/DP29.jpg)
Daily Poetry Reading #29: ‘Vergissmeinnicht’ by Keith Douglas
Running Time: 1:58
![Daily Poetry Reading #30: ‘Strange Meeting’ by Wilfred Owen](https://channelmcgilchrist.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/DP30.jpg)
Daily Poetry Reading #30: ‘Strange Meeting’ by Wilfred Owen
Running Time: 4:40