Poems by: Elizabeth Bartlett; Wiliam Blake; Elaine Feinstein; W.S. Graham; A.N. Stencl; George Szirtes; Sarah Wardle; William Wordsworth; Traditional. London is heady, exciting, romantic - rich with tradition and with dissent, forever renewing and re-positioning itself, part real, part myth. Its public spaces can seem like historic statements its private spaces less declamatory, quieter. Above all, London has inspired some truly great poems. This selection ranges between William Wordsworth's sonnet of 1802 describing the early morning view from Westminster Bridge to Trojan Horse by George Szirces, specifically commissioned for Ten Poems About London and published here for the first time. The poems capture something of the essence of London, listening in to its music, its beat. They roam its pavements, sit out under its streets lamps in the dark almost-silence of the city asleep.