S4, E9: "Silent Night (Christmas 1915)" by Cormac MacConnell

S4, E8: "A Jewish Mom's Christmas Poem" by Amy Sue Nathan

S4, E7: "My hero the whirligig" by Bob Hicok

S4, E6: "Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus", by Francis P. Church

S4, E5: "A Christmas Childhood" by Patrick Kavanagh

S4, E4: "Christmas" by John Betjeman

S4, E3: "The Christmas Letter" by John N. Morris

S4, E2: "Advent" by Mary Jo Salter

S4, E1: "Christmas Trees" by Robert Frost

Series 4 Trailer: Christmas

S3, E12: Two poems, by Edgar Albert Guest and Rupi Kaur

S3, E11: "The Time" by Shane Breslin

S3, E10: "Follower" by Seamus Heaney

S3, E9: "Because" by James McAuley

S3, E8: "Michael: A Pastoral Poem" by William Wordsworth

S3, E7: "Weakness" by Alden Nowlan

S3, E6: "On my First Son" by Ben Jonson

S3, E5: "The Gift" by Li-Young Lee

S3, E4: "My Father's Hats" by Mark Irwin

S3, E3: "Father's Song" by Gregory Orr

S3, E2: "The Living Years" by Mike Rutherford

S3, E1: "Those Winter Sundays" by Robert Hayden

Series 3 Trailer: "Fatherhood"

Ep. 212: "Begin" by Brendan Kennelly

Ep. 211: "Dawn Revisited" by Rita Dove

Ep. 210: Three Cantos from "In Memoriam AHH" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Ep. 209: "The birthday of the world" by Marge Piercy

Ep. 208: "The Fisherman", by WB Yeats

Ep. 207: "This is not the end" by Tanner Olson

Ep. 206: "Dawn at St Patrick's" by Derek Mahon

Ep. 205: "Beginning" by Lia Purpura

Ep. 204: "For a New Beginning" by John O'Donohue

Ep. 203: "Center of the Universe" by Hannah Emerson

Ep. 202: "Aristotle" by Billy Collins

Ep. 201: "How Dark the Beginning" by Maggie Smith

Ep. 200: A New Era for Poems for the Speed of Life

Ep. 199: “A Christmas Blessing” by John O’Donohue

Ep. 198: "Blessing for the Longest Night" by Jan Richardson

Ep. 196: "A Child's Christmas in Wales", by Dylan Thomas

Intermission: Explaining My Unscheduled Absence

Ep. 194: "November Night" by Adelaide Crapsey

Ep. 193: "To Think of the Life of a Man" by Wendell Berry

Ep. 192: "Does every generation", by Chantal House

Ep. 191: "Samhain" by Annie Finch

Ep. 190: (The Definition of) Sonder, by John Koenig

Ep. 189: "Friendship is what will save us" by David Gate

Ep. 188: "Late Fragment" by Raymond Carver

Ep. 187: "Hope" by Vaclav Havel

Ep. 186: "In The Park" by Gwen Harwood

Ep. 185: "The Truelove" by David Whyte

Ep. 184: "Consolation" by Wislawa Szymborska (transl. by Clare Cavanagh)

Ep. 183: "The Soldier" by Rupert Brooke

Ep. 182: "Tremolo" by Breda Wall Ryan

Ep. 181: "Barcelona" by Hugo Dewar

Ep. 180: "If You Have Time" by Nanao Sakaki

Ep. 179: "France" by Douglas Dunn

Ep. 178: "Everything Changes" by Bertolt Brecht

Ep. 177: "Softest of Mornings" by Mary Oliver

Ep. 176: "His Stillness" by Sharon Olds

Ep. 175: "As I Began to Love Myself" (Anonymous)

Ep. 174: "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by William Wordsworth

Ep. 173: "The Work of Happiness", by May Sarton

Ep. 172: "Dreams", by Langston Hughes

Ep. 171: "Night Mail", by WH Auden

Ep. 170: "Success", by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ep. 169: "The Laughing Heart", by Charles Bukowski

Ep. 168: From "Anniversaries of War", by Yehuda Amichai

Ep. 167: "The Guy in the Glass", by Dale Wimbrow

Ep. 166: "Ode to a Large Tuna in the Market", by Pablo Neruda

Ep. 165: "Desiderata", by Max Ehrmann

Ep. 164: "Compost Piles", by Wendy Morton

Ep. 163: "Blackberry-Picking", by Seamus Heaney

Ep. 162: "Age as Measure", by Patricia Williams

Ep. 161: "If I can stop one heart from breaking", by Emily Dickinson

Ep. 160: "Giving" by Kahlil Gibran

Ep. 159: "Wear sunscreen" / "Advice, like youth, probably just wasted on the young" by Mary Schmich

Ep. 158: "Happiness" by Priscilla Leonard

Ep. 157: "The Day is Done" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ep. 156: "Thinking" by Walter D. Wintle

Ep. 155: "Eternal Dance" (from "Hi Ren") by Ren

Ep. 154: "The Guest House" by Rumi

Ep. 153: "To Be of Use" by Marge Piercy

Ep. 152: "The Butterfly Dream" by Zhuangzi

Ep. 151: "Still I Rise" by Maya Angelou

Ep. 150: "Choose Life" from the film Trainspotting (screenplay: John Hodge; adapted from novel by Irvine Welsh)

Ep. 149: "I wanted" by Roque Dalton (translated by Anne Boyer)

Ep. 148: Three Poems on Prayer, from Kaveh Akbar, Matthew McConaughey and Carol Ann Duffy

Ep. 147: Three Poems on Grief and Loss, from Tom French, John O'Donohue and Andy Irvine

Ep. 146: Three Poems on the Healing Power of Nature, from Wendell Berry, Desmond Egan and Francis Harvey

Ep. 145: Three Poems on Male Experience, from Pat Boran, Seamus Heaney and Norman MacCaig

Ep. 144: Three Poems on Ageing, from Clive James, Gailmarie Pahmeier and Billy Collins

Ep. 143: "Wild Geese" by Mary Oliver

Ep. 142: "A Portable Paradise", by Roger Robinson

Ep. 141: "How Prayer Works" by Kaveh Akbar

Ep. 140: "A Thought" by Matt Goodfellow

Ep. 139: "Questions of Travel" by Elizabeth Bishop

Ep. 138: "Pale Blue Dot" by Carl Sagan

Ep. 137: "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost

Ep. 136: "Between Hovers" by Michael Longley

Ep. 135: "All Bread" by Margaret Atwood

Ep. 134: "O Captain! My Captain" by Walt Whitman

Ep. 133: "The Listeners" by Walter De La Mare

Ep. 132: "Wonder Woman" by Ada Limón

Ep. 131: "I Sit Beside the Fire and Think", by JRR Tolkien

Ep. 130: "All My Friends Are Finding New Beliefs" by Christian Wiman

Ep. 129: "I've Made Up My Mind to Give Myself to You" by Bob Dylan

Ep. 128: "Prayer Before Birth" by Louis MacNeice

Ep. 127: "Warming-Down" by Aideen Henry

Ep. 126: "My Mother’s Body" by Marie Howe

Ep. 125: "The Order of Time" by Anaximander

Ep. 124: "Wildflowers" by Mark Roper

Ep. 123: "Prayer" by Faisal Mohyuddin

Ep. 122: "Gypsy" by Bo Burnham

Ep. 121: "Bani Adam" by Saadi Shirazi

Ep. 120: "Everything is Going to be All Right" by Derek Mahon

Ep. 119: "Everything Falls Away" by Parker J. Palmer

Ep. 118: From "Ghetto" (or "Belongings") by Michael Longley

Ep. 117: "The Whitsun Weddings" by Philip Larkin

Ep. 116: "December at Yase" by Gary Snyder

Ep. 115: "Poem on a Line by Anne Sexton, 'We Are All Writing God's Poem'", by Barbara Crooker

Ep. 114: "On the Move" by Thom Gunn

Ep. 113: "The Habit of Laughter" by Sara Berkeley

Ep. 112: "Pied Beauty" by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Ep. 111: "Touching the Bones" by Tom French

Ep. 110: "Japanese Maple", by Clive James

Ep. 109: "Love’s Philosophy" by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Ep. 108: "Loveliest of trees, the cherry now" by AE Housman

Ep. 107: "Thanks, Robert Frost" by David Ray

Ep. 106: "Mysticism for Beginners" by Adam Zagajewsky

Ep. 105: "Vanity" by Kathryn Stripling Byer

Ep. 104: "Blessings" by Francis Harvey

Ep. 103: "The Singers" by Eavan Boland

Ep. 102: "Each Moment a White Bull Steps Shining into the World" by Jane Hirshfield

Ep. 101: "Anger" by Yusef Komunyakaa

Ep. 100: Why Poems for the Speed of Life?

Ep. 99: "Tent" by Pat Boran

Ep. 98: "Color" by Tina Chang

Ep. 97: "Lift Every Voice and Sing" by James Weldon Johnson

Ep. 96: "This afternoon, burn down the house" by Ray Bradbury

Ep: 95: "On the Death of the Beloved" by John O'Donohue

Ep. 94: "A Seeming Stillness" by David Whyte

Ep. 93: "On Friendship" by Kahlil Gibran

Ep. 92: "Driving Dad to The Dog Museum" by Gailmarie Pahmeier

Ep. 91: "Neither Now Nor Never" by Kaveh Akbar

Ep. 90: "I love the dark hours of my being" by Rainer Maria Rilke.

Ep. 89: "Something wonderful has happened it is called you" by Emily Critchley

Ep. 88: "The Mayo Tao" by Derek Mahon

Ep. 87: "Money" by Philip Larkin

Ep. 86: "Funeral Prayer" by Don Paterson

Ep. 85: From "An Essay on Criticism" by Alexander Pope

Ep. 84: "Detail" by Eamon Grennan

Ep. 83: "Houston, 1965" by Loren Broaddus

Ep. 82: "The East-West Border" by Jaan Kaplinski

Ep. 81: "In a Restaurant" by Stephen Santus

Ep. 80: "Home-Thoughts, from Abroad" by Robert Browning

Ep. 79: "Hosing Down" by Hubert Moore

Ep. 78: "Hay", by Paul Muldoon

Ep. 77: "What the Living Do", by Marie Howe

Ep. 76: "Call" by Doireann Ní Ghríofa

Ep. 75: "⁠It Aint What You Do It’s What It Does to You", by Simon Armitage

Ep. 74: "What You Mean to Me" by Penny Boxall

Ep. 73: "It's Our Dance", by Brendan Cleary

Ep. 72: "Great Plain", by Kevin Powers

Ep. 71: "Because", by James McAuley

Ep. 70: "The Peace of Wild Things" by Wendell Berry

Ep. 69: "Instructions on Not Giving Up" by Ada Limón

Ep. 68: "The Lost Land" by Eavan Boland

Ep. 66: "Antidotes to Fear of Death" by Rebecca Elson

Ep. 65: "The Resemblance Between Your Life and a Dog" by Robert Bly

Ep. 64: "Failing and Flying" by Jack Gilbert

Ep. 63: "The Way It Is" by William Stafford

Ep. 62: "Bread" by Moya Cannon

Ep. 61: "Bluebird" by Charles Bukowski

Ep. 60: "Clearing" by Martha Postlethwaite

Ep. 59: "Integrity", by Adrienne Rich

Ep. 58: "The Art of Disappearing", by Naomi Shihab Nye

Ep. 57: "If—", by Rudyard Kipling

Ep. 56: "Begin" by Brendan Kennelly

Ep. 55: "Things to live for when the world seems hopeless", by Nikita Gill

Ep. 54: "Digging" and "Follower" by Seamus Heaney

Ep. 53: "When I set out for Lyonnesse" by Thomas Hardy

Ep. 52: "A Blessing" by James Wright

Ep. 51: "Munich, Winter 1973 (for Y.S.)" by James Baldwin

Ep. 50: "Hideout", by Desmond Egan

Ep. 49: "Entirely", by Louis MacNeice

Ep. 48: "Mirrors", by IN-Q

Ep. 47: "Shadow and Light Source Both", by Rumi

PTLWB 46: "Why Pray", by Matthew McConaughey

PTLWB 45: "The West Coast of Clare", by Andy Irvine

PTLWB 44: "Mirror in February", by Thomas Kinsella

PTLWB 43: "Woodland Burial", by Pam Ayres

PTLWB 42: "Praise of a Man", by Norman MacCaig

PTLWB 41: "Go to the Limits of Your Longing", by Rainer Maria Rilke

PTLWB 40: "Up", by Margaret Atwood

PTLWB 39: "Snow", by Vladimir Holan

PTLWB 38: "The Bell and the Blackbird", by David Whyte

PTLWB 37: "Leaving the Empty Room", by Stephen Dunn

PTLWB 36: "Prayer", by Carol Ann Duffy

PTLWB 35: "You", by Dennis O'Driscoll

PTLWB 34: "The Journey", by Mary Oliver

PTLWB 33: "A Piper", by Seumas O'Sullivan

PTLWB 32: "Do Not Be Ashamed", by Wendell Berry

PTLWB 31: "Landmarks", by Breda Wall Ryan

PTLWB 30: "The Best Day of My Life", by Tom Odell & Laurie Blundell

PTLWB 29: "Spring and All", by William Carlos Williams

PTLWB 28: "Forgetfulness", by Billy Collins

PTLWB 27: "Unknown Girl in the Maternity Ward", by Anne Sexton

PTLWB 26: "Weakness", by Alden Nowlan

PTLWB 25: "Rain", by Edward Thomas

PTLWB 24: "I Went into the Maverick Bar", by Gary Snyder

PTLWB 23: "In Broken Images", by Robert Graves

PTLWB 22: "spring is like a perhaps hand", by ee cummings

PTLWB 21: "The World as Meditation", by Wallace Stevens

PTLWB 20: "Toward the Solstice", by Adrienne Rich

PTLWB 19: "And Death Shall Have No Dominion", by Dylan Thomas

PTLWB 18: "Thirteen", by Kae Tempest

PTLWB 17: "Beannacht", by John O'Donohue

PTLWB 16: "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer", by John Keats

PTLWB 15: "Piano", by DH Lawrence

PTLWB 14: "Postscript", by Seamus Heaney

PTLWB 13: "Hope is the thing with feathers", by Emily Dickinson

PTLWB 12: "Palm Leaves", by Charles Bukowski

PTLWB 11: "Wait", by Galway Kinnell

PTLWB 10: "Advent", by Patrick Kavanagh

PTLWB 9: "Snow Fairy", by Claude McKay

PTLWB 8: "Journey of the Magi", by TS Eliot

PTLWB 7: "Sometimes", by David Whyte

PTLWB 6: "The People of the Other Village", by Thomas Lux

PTLWB 5: "Happiness", by Raymond Carver

PTLWB 4: "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening", by Robert Frost

PTLWB 3: "Night Drive", by Tom French

PTLWB 2: "Snowy Night", by Mary Oliver

PTLWB 1: "Harrowing", by Parker J Palmer