Alan Bennett has published a book of his favourite poems by Thomas Hardy, A. E. Housman, John Betjeman, W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice and Philip Larkin. Here are mine:
- Thomas Hardy - Afterwards
- Philip Larkin - An Arundel Tomb
- Louis MacNiece - Bagpipe Music
- John Betjeman - Christmas
- WH Auden - Funeral Blues
- AE Housman - Into My Heart an Air that Kills
- WH Auden - Night Mail
- Louis MacNiece - Prayer before Birth
- John Betjeman - Slough
- Thomas Hardy - The Darkling Thrush
- Thomas Hardy - The Ruined Maid
- WH Auden - The Shield of Achilles
- John Betjeman - A Subaltern's Love Song
- Louis MacNiece - The Sunlight on the Garden
- Philip Larkin - This Be The Verse
- Philip Larkin - Whitsun Weddings