Welcome to Poetry Corner. Whether you enjoy the lyrical waxings of Byron, Shelley and Keats or prefer the more modern musings of Andrew Motion and Roger McGough this is the place for you.

Check out works by some of Swindon’s resident wordsmiths or if you fancy yourself as a budding poet laureate send us your own poem. The best of them will be published in the Adver.

If you need some inspiration, why not check out some famous poems.

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The Storm by Barb Anscombe

9:34am Thursday 1st May 2008

The storm is getting ready .......

Canal by B Langham

10:31am Wednesday 30th April 2008

This debate goes on and on...

Poppies by Kiea Weaver

10:28am Wednesday 30th April 2008

A field, yes a large open field...

There is no way by Andrew Salmon

10:27am Wednesday 30th April 2008

There is no way I could leave, not on this earth...

Giving Up by Joan Brooks

5:00pm Tuesday 29th April 2008

Won’t anyone give me a fag?

Our Garden by John Cole

4:43pm Tuesday 29th April 2008

Seated on my favourite chair, through window is a scene...

Time Stands Still by Anita Morrish

9:55am Monday 28th April 2008

I sit here in my armchair day after day...

What is it? by Inez M Pennock

9:33am Friday 25th April 2008

What is it then, Just out of sight...

Cycling by V Kumkar

9:29am Friday 25th April 2008

When I was young and able and as strong as a horse...

Those Nazis couldn't beat us by Les Fox

12:16pm Thursday 24th April 2008

During the war, when the German bombers came...

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