The opening lines of Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge,as quoted in Xanadu 1980,Robert Greenwald

"The winter of discontent" Shakespeare Richard III Soliloquy at a urinal! (Richard Loncraine, 1995)

Disabled by Wilfred Owen (from Benediction [2021] by Terence Davies)

Henry V 1989 by Kenneth Branagh, Clip 'O Kate, we are the makers of manners...'

Henry V 1989 by Kenneth Branagh, Clip: Derek Jacobi as Chorus - O for a muse of fire ...

as it grew dark [ref-Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte] (1983) composed by Paul Lansky

Four Quartets by T.S. Eliot-Terence Davies recites lines from East Coker (Of Time and the City 2008)

Cargoes by John Masefield- as taught by Christopher Eccleston in Hearts and Minds (TV series) - 1995

Henryk Szpilman quotes from The Merchant of Venice by Shakespeare (The Pianist by Roman Polanski)

Name Journeys by Raman Mundair (AQA 'Worlds and Lives' cluster)

On an Afternoon Train from Purley to Victoria (1955) by James Berry (AQA 'Worlds and Lives' cluster)

'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night' by Dylan Thomas from Interstellar 2014 by Christopher Nolan

Ulysses by Tennyson as quoted by M (Judy Dench) in Skyfall (2012) by Sam Mendes

‘Spring Morning’ By A. A. Milne (from Kindergarten Cop (1990) by Ivan Reitman)

‘I Go Back to May 1937’ by Sharon Olds (from Into The Wild (2007) by Sean Penn)

The Caretaker - Harold Pinter (1963) by Clive Donner, Clip:Mick, Mac and Aston discuss the bucket

The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) by Joel Coen, Clip: Malcolm & Donalbain flee after Duncan is murdered

The Murder of Lidice - Edna St. Vincent Millay-from Hitler's Madman (1943) by Douglas Sirk - ending

The Murder of Lidice - Edna St. Vincent Millay-from Hitler's Madman (1943) by Douglas Sirk-beginning

The Moment read by Margaret Atwood

They Shall Not Grow Old (2018) by Peter Jackson:Enlisting soldiers words-& famous propaganda posters

In Praise of Limestone by W H Auden (Read by W H Auden)

An Irish Airman Foresees his Death by WB Yeats - read by Shane MacGowan

Withnail and I (1987) by Bruce Robinson, Clip: The Hamlet speech...

'If We Must Die' by Claude Mckay - Claude Mckay introduces and reads his poem...

The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams (from The Fault in Our Stars (2014) Josh Boone)

A. E. Housman - The Time you Won your Town the Race (From 'Out of Africa', 1985)

"The quality of mercy" speech by Portia in The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare) by Michael Radford

The Birthday Party (1968 - by William Friedkin) Clip: Ending - "Don't let them tell you what to do"

Charles Bukowski - Friendly advice to a lot of young men

Hamlet (1948) by Laurence Olivier, Clip: Scene 1 - The Ghost

Hamlet (1948) by Laurence Olivier, Clip: Scene 4 - The Ghost appears to Hamlet

Hamlet (1948) by Laurence Olivier, Clip: To bear not to be....

Thomas Hood - Silence (extract) from The Piano by Jane Campion

Robert Browning - The Pied Piper of Hamelin (extract) (from The Sweet Hereafter by Atom Egoyan)

Charles Bukowski - 2 p.m. beer (from Barfly (1987) by Barbet Schroeder)

Welcome, Welcome Emigranté (1965) by Buffy Sainte-Marie

Emily Dickinson - Ample Make This Bed from 'Sophie’s Choice' (1982)

W. H Auden - As I Walked Out One Evening (extract) from Before Sunrise (1995)

William Blake - 'America, A Prophecy' (extract) from 'Blade Runner' (1982)

The Birthday Party (1968 - by William Friedkin) Clip: Meg proposes the toast for Stanley's birthday

The Birthday Party(1968) by William Friedkin, Clip:Do you ever ask yourself who you are talking to?

One Art by Elizabeth Bishop (from "Reaching for the Moon" [Flores Raras] (2013) by Bruno Barreto

Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley (Read by Stanley Marsh from "Road Does Not End" by Todd Kent)

Cillian Murphy (Tommy Shelby) recites from A Poison Tree by William Blake in Peaky Blinders (S6, E1)

E. E. Cummings: 'Nobody, not even the rain, has such small hands' Hannah and Her Sisters-Woody Allen

"Intimations of Immortality" by William Wordsworth (from Splendor In The Grass (1961) by Elia Kazan)

Macbeth (1971) by Roman Polanski, Clip: Macbeth loses [possession of] his head...

'Not Waving But Drowning' - Stevie Smith - read by Glenda Jackson (1936-2023)

Late Fragment by Raymond Carver [from Birdman (2014) by Alejandro González Iñárritu]

Lady Lazarus by Sylvia Plath by Terranova feat. Nicolette Krebitz & Udo Kier - Prayer (snippet)

Golven 1982 by Annette Apon (Whole Film - first time on Youtube!) [ref The Waves by Virginia Woolf]

Wuthering Heights (1988) by Yoshishige Yoshida, Clip: Takamaru discovers that Kinu is now dead...

King Lear (2018) by Richard Eyre, Clip: Cordelia says No...

King Lear (2018) by Richard Eyre, Clip: Lear et al on the heath...

The Hill We Climb by Amanda Gorman

The Gift Outright by Robert Frost

This Be The Verse (1971) by Philip Larkin

Play / Pay it all Back by William Burroughs

Born Like This (Written and performed by Charles Bukowski)