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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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