Arrows of Desire is twelve-part poetry series commissioned by 4Learning, the educational affiliate of Channel 4 Television. Consisting of 48 six-minute modules, it looks at a broad range of English-language poetry, from Sir Thomas Wyatt's embittered love poem 'They fle from me that sometyme did me seke' (c1530) to Lawrence Ferlinghetti's 'History of the Airplane' (2001), a response to the attack on the World Trade Center. The series has to date won three Gold Camera awards at the US International film & Video Festival.

Series I

Programme 1 Blake, Carroll, Cummings, Tennyson Programme 2 MacNeice, Frost, Lear, Williams Programme 3 Causley, Betjeman, Shelley, Owen Programme 4 Dylan Thomas, Larkin, Auden, Dickinson

Series II

Programme 5 Hardy, Heaney, Duffy, Clare Programme 6 Behn, Yeats, Wordsworth, Edward Thomas Programme 7 Donne, Greenlaw, Reed, Whitman Programme 8 Smith, Levertov, Lawrence, Wilde

Series III

Programme 9 Fanthorpe, Keats, Snyder, Harrison Programme 10 Shakespeare, RS Thomas, Goodison, Swift Programme 11 Hughes, Hopkins, Cavendish, Plath Programme 12 Wyatt, Smart, Pound, Ferlinghetti

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