The next poem is also rather short.

I write musicals I make short films alongside my poems.

It's a very small form, like a joke, a poem, a magic trick or a song, very compact form.

I'd like to end with a few verses of what I wrote at my father's cremation.

And the way I'm going to do that is present to you five animations of five of my poems.

I wanted to read you a quick, very short poem from W. B. Yeats, who some of you may know.

It's a little poem called Budapest, and in it I reveal, or pretend to reveal, the secrets of the creative process.

Poems. I have to write poems.

Spoken word poetry is the art of performance poetry.

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

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

Poetry.

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.

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.

It's called The Neighbor.

She taught me how to write a poem.

He read the poem again.

Robert Frost once said that, It is poetry that is lost in translation.