But it's interesting to me. I love to write historical verse.

It's very, very epic and a very beautiful concert.

Alexander's mother, his parents, his teacher Aristotle told him the story of Homer's Iliad.

Because in poetics, as Margaret Atwood pointed out, we write our history on the skin of fish with the blood of bears.

Poems. I have to write poems.

Recalling also its resolution 49 129 of 19 December 1994 on the commemoration of the millennium of the Kyrgyz national epic, Manas,

Spoken word poetry is the art of performance poetry.

And the observations that he made on that epic journey were to be eventually distilled into his wonderful book, On the Origin of Species, published 150 years ago.

Poet Rives does 8 minutes of lyrical origami, folding history into a series of coincidences surrounding that most surreal of hours, 4 o'clock in the morning.

Li Bai's work is the most famous of Chinese poetry.

And I remembered a line from the Mahabharata, the great Indian epic What is the most wondrous thing in the world, Yudhisthira?

It is in these little stories, these individual stories, that I see a radical epic being written by women around the world.

I started with a poem, I'll end with one.

Poetry.

George Santayana, the Spanish American poet and philosopher, once warned that Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. This is especially true in the field of bridge building, where over the past 150 years dramatic failures have occurred at surprisingly regular intervals.

I tell people it involves creating poetry that doesn't just want to sit on paper, that something about it demands it be heard out loud or witnessed in person.

Ralph Waldo Emerson described language as fossil poetry.

I want to end with a poem by an American poet called Lucille Clifton.

And Dad would read poetry to us. So I always liked it.

What they discovered was that in our Netflix queues there's this epic struggle going on between our future aspirational selves and our more impulsive present selves.

And in terms of the line of poetry, why does the poet use the word hare rather than rabbit?

There's a poem written by a very famous English poet at the end of the 19th century.

Poetry does that.

Marcus A modern day poet.

The Poetry of the Euro

And it goes like this. It's by a guy called Yuan Chen I cannot bear to put away the bamboo sleeping mat.

It is a dream come true to be part of this choir, as I've never been part of one.

You don't write a psalm.

And here's her poem.

Allen is a poet.

Poetry matters.

It's a longer poem.

And the choir conductor there knew that I sang and invited me to come and join the choir.

When I got to university, I met a fellow poet who shared my belief in the magic of spoken word poetry.

And sometimes I get to the end of the poem and look back and go, Oh, that's what this is all about, and sometimes I get to the end of the poem and haven't solved anything, but at least I have a new poem out of it.

I don't want to write that stuff.

The poem is called No Man is an Island.

He is nothing but a poet.

She wrote a lot of poems.

He is only a poet.

And so she wrote her first poem, a love poem unlike any I had ever heard before.

I think of all the poetry that I've read about romantic love, what sums it up best is something that is said by Plato, over 2,000 years ago.

Machine a thing of beauty, and a joy forever. Perfect running.

It's called The Country.

This is called The Dress.