The British Broadcasting Corporation's long running radio programme Desert Island Discs is a chat show with a twist. The guest each week has to imagine herself/himself as a castaway, alone on a desert island. They have a wind-up record player, 8 records, a copy of the bible and Shakespeare's complete works plus one other item.
The interviewer examines the musical choices in the conversation and the tunes are played.
Now let's play around with it to get Desert Island Poetry. If you had to choose poems instead of tunes which would you choose?
We have all read and enjoyed a wide variety of poems over the years and then moved on. Most of those poems have quickly faded from our minds but some have become firmly fixed and are often revisited like old friends.
So the rules are simple.
Choose 7 poems from 7 different poets. Add a brief note about each individual choice, add a link to the poem on the Oldpoetry website.
Save your choices as a column on your Allpoetry pages and send a message to user Old Poetry. The best ones will be added to this column.
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This was the first such column and was contributed by I-Like-Rhymes, one of the helpers at Oldpoetry.
This was next and was contributed by Rufina Caraid, the Oldpoetry site supervisor.
A contribution from an Allpoetry member Gordon the Gopher
We would love to see yours . . .
7 Poems each from a different Poet. Which would you choose?
Adding your comment:
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Why not hold a lottery or something? Users could send in their seven poems and stuff, and maybe one out of them would randomly win some points. Gives them an incentive to read, and also participate. 
