Gods and Monsters. Mythological Poems

Foreword by Natalie Haynes
The First Rays of the Sun: Beginnings
Faith Dawn McLachldn
The Serpent and the Turtle Kate Wakeling
Cloud Forest Dawn McLachlan
Up Uffington Hill James Carter
Ushas Rashmi Sirdeshpande
Song by Song, Tale by Tale
from Brand New Ancients Kae Tempest
Tell Tales Michaela Morgan
The Day the Saucers Came Neil Gaiman
Tula Margarita Engle
Storytelling Nick Toczek
Selected Legends of Andre the Giant W. Todd
Kaneko
On Reading The Odyssey before
Going to Bed A. F. Harrold
To Sail Beyond the Sunset: Quests and Heroes
Ithaka С. P. Cavafy
from The Odyssey Homer
from Ulysses Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Cyclops' Revenge Judith Nicholls
from Metamorphoses Ovid
An Ancient Gesture Edna St Vincent Millay
A Note Home Sarah Ziman
Argus and Ulysses Eleanor Farjeon
Andromeda Judith Nicholls
Heroes Benjamin Zephaniah
Arjuna the Warrior Prince Rashmi Sirdeshpande
The Wide, Bright Temple of the World: Worship and
Love
Anadyomene Sara Teasdale
Deathless Aphrodite of the Spangled Mind Sappho from
A Search for Apollo A. Mary F. Robinson
The Song of Wandering Aengus W. B. Yeats
Blodeuwedd Nesta WynJones
Blodeuwedd Sarah Ziman
from the Mabinogi: Rhiannon Anon.
In a Sky of a Thousand Stars Bursting: Taking Flight
To Asgard! Rachel Piercey
Thor's Wife Sarah Ziman
from Atalanta in Calydon Algernon Charles
Swinburne
from the Odyssey Homer
Phaeton Gareth Owen
To a Friend Whose Work Has
Come to Triumph Anne Sexton
Mrs Icarus Carol Ann Dufy
The Heartsong of Wayland Smith TonyMitton
The Morrigan Meets a Lover on the
Battlefield Caroline Hardaker
Athena Rises Nikita Gill
The Gods Roar and the Mountains Slide: Divine Rage
and Mischief
View from on High Michaela Morgan
Did You Know Earthquakes Come from
a Catfish? Yoshi Funaki
Inanna and An Enheduanna
The Furies Lavinia Singer
Yuki Onna - Snow Woman Jan Dean
Three Sisters Cheryl Corey
Apples of Hesperides Amy Lowell
Midas Judith Nicholls
Arachnophobia Kate Wise
Prometheus Unbound Joseph Coelho
King Duffus Sylvia Townsend Warner
Diana Regrets Carole Bromley
Artemis Peter Davison
Lost in a Forest: What Walks in the Wild Wood?
Time Travel Leland James
Dryads Siegfried Sassoon
A Musical Instrument Elizabeth Barrett
Browning
The Tired Cupid Walter de la Mare
A Piece for Magic Strings Li He
Cream of Fool Ivan: A Recipe Randi Anderson
Green Man in the Garden Charles Causley
Green Man Rachel Piercey
from The Merry Wives of Windsor William
Shakespeare
Herne's Song Jan Dean
Woden's Wild Hunt David Hamer
In the Forest Oscar Wilde
Faun Sylvia Plath
Love Poem: Satyr Donika Kelly
Lost Magic Brian Moses
The Unicorn Seat Tracey Herd
Pegasus Eleanor Farjeon
Mayhem-Mongers and Monsters
A Plea from the Rescue Centre for
Mythical Beasts Brian Moses
The Banshee John Todhunter
Medusa's Head Patrick Widdess
Two Basilisks Graham Denton
The Forest A. F. Harrold
The Dragon Whistler Pie Corbett
The Song that Orpheus Sang to Charm
the Dragon Andrew Lang
О To Be a Dragon Marianne Moore
Grendel David Hamer
Beowulf A. F. Harrold
Dead Dragon, Deep Dragon Laura Vamam
The Yeti and the Monk Brian Patten
Jabberwocky Lewis Carroll
The Sleepy Giant Charles E. Carryl
Walking with Giants Carole Bromley
The jotunn Caroline Hardaker
Guess Who? Graham Denton
Amarock Sue Hardy-Dawson
Riddle A. F. Harrold
Not Being Oedipus John Heath-Stubbs
Out in the Desert Charles Causley
Bunyip Attie Lime
The Loch Ness Monster's Song Edwin Morgan
The Loch Ness Monster's Husband Carol Ann
Duffy
Kelpie Rebecca Gethin
The Kraken Alfred Lord Tennyson
Now the Wild White Horses Play: Beneath the Waves
Siren Song Margaret Atwood
The Siren Violet Fane
from The Forsaken Merman Matthew Arnold
Daughter of the Sea Philip Gross
Why the Sea is Salt Attie Lime
The City in the Sea Edgar Allan Poe
Goodbye Penelope Shuttle
A Hymn in Praise of Neptune Thomas Campion
The River God Stevie Smith
The Dark World: Underworlds and Afterlives
Guess the Title! David Orme
Imagine This Nick Toczek
The Weighing of the Heart Maura Dooley
Buying a Guide to the Afterlife Laura Mucha
Charon's Song Victoria Punch
Persephone ElizabethJennings
Persephone Judith Nicholls
A Myth of Devotion Louise Gluck
Demeter Carol Ann Dufy
Cerberus Chrissie Gittins
Eurydice Pam Scobie
The Place of Ordinary Souls Helen Dunmore
Index of First Lines
Index of Authors and Translators
Acknowledgements