Christmas Quiz Answers

1. “She was wearing the coral taffeta trousers” from ‘Full Moon’ by Vita Sackville-West
2. ‘White Asparagus’ by Sujata Bhatt
3. “Rockall. Malin. Dogger. Finisterre.” from ‘Prayer’ by Carol Ann Duffy
4. ‘The Black Lace Fan My Mother Gave Me’ by Evan Boland
5. “Love set you going like a fat gold watch” from ‘Morning Song’ by Sylvia Plath
6. ‘Diving into the Wreck’ by Adrienne Rich
7. ‘Filling Station’ by Elizabeth Bishop
8. ‘Caged Bird’ by Maya Angelou
9. ‘Coal’ by Audre Lourde
10. ‘The Pangolin’ by Fleur Adcock
11. ‘Not Waving but Drowning’ by Stevie Smith
12. “An aged thrush, frail, gaunt and small” from ‘The Darkling Thrush’ by Thomas Hardy
13. “And all I ask is a tall ship and a start to steer her by” from ‘Sea-Fever’ by John Masefield
14. “So much depends / upon // a red wheel / barrow” from ‘The Red Wheelbarrow’ by William Carlos Williams
15. “A snake came to my water trough” from ‘Snake’ by D. H. Lawrence
16. “We saw a guard in a sentry box” from ‘Buckingham Palace’ by A. A. Milne
17. “It’s no go the merrygoround, it’s no go the rickshaw” from ‘Bagpipe Music’ by Louis MacNeice
18. “I’m obsessed by Time Magazine” from ‘America’ by Allan Ginsberg
19. ‘Pike’ by Ted Hughes
20. “Brag, sweet tenor bull, / descant on Rawthey’s madrigal” from ‘Briggflatts’ by Basil Bunting
21. “One year / a box of tangerines arrived for me from France.” from ‘Tangerines’ by Hugo Williams
22. ‘The Fly’ by Miroslav Holub
23. ‘Ode to the Clothesline’ by Kwame Dawes
24.  “down to the sloeback, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat bobbing sea” from ‘Under Milk Wood’ by Dylan Thomas  

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