| SWINBURNE | Author of Poems and Ballads (9) |
| HENRYLAWSON | Australian author of poems and short stories,1867-1922; park in Drummoyne (5,6) |
| SEAFEVER | Poem by John Masefield featured in the collection Salt-Water Poems and Ballads (3-5) |
| BARAKA | United States writer of poems and plays about racial conflict (born in 1934). |
| SONNETEER | Writer of poems enters one that's nonsense (9) |
| TRAVERSES | Paintings sent back, along with poems and crosses (9) |
| JERUSALEM | Popular name of the 1804 William Blake poem 'And did those feet in ancient time', scored as a hymn by Hubert Parry in 1916 (9) |
| RECOMPOSE | Rewrite poem and score after review (9) |
| ABERFELDY | Town on the River Tay in Scotland, mentioned in a Robert Burns poem and an Ed Sheeran song (9) |
| NIGHTMAIL | 1936 poem and documentary film about a postal train |
| IWXTSPRONAOI | Part of poem and German dance in S Africa |
| LONGFELLOW | Poet remembered for narratives and ballads including The Wreck of the Hesperus, The Village Blacksmith and his epic The Song of Hiawatha (10) |
| WALTERSCOTT | British author of historical novels and ballads (6,5) |
| SCOTT | British author of historical novels and ballads |
| CLARE | Known as the Peasant Poet, author of Poems Descriptive of Rural Life and Scenery and The Shepherds Calendar who spent his last 26 years in an asylum (5) |
| IGLESIAS | Julio --, Spanish singer of love songs and ballads (8) |
| KEATS | John ___, author of poems The Eve of St Agnes and Ode on a Grecian Urn (5) |
| TENNYSON | Alfred ?, author of poems The Lady of Shalott and Voices in the Mist (8) |
| RILKE | German poet and author of Poems From The Book Of Hours, Rainer Maria ... |
| SHELLEY | Author of poems including To a Skylark and The Cloud who eloped with Mary Wollstonecraft's daughter and later drowned aged |
