John Keats: five poets on his best poems, 200 years since his death

From Ode to a Nightingale to Modern Love, Ruth Padel, Will Harris, Mary Jean Chan, Rachel Long and Seán Hewitt choose their favourites

Chosen by Ruth Padel

Ruth Padel has written Songs of the Night, a poem inspired by Ode to a Nightingale, to mark the bicentenary with the Poetry Society and Keats House Hampstead.

Rendang by Will Harris, winner of the 2020 Forward prize for first collection, is published by Granta.

Flèche by Mary Jean Chan, winner of the 2019 Costa award for poetry, is published by Faber.

Tongues of Fire by Seán Hewitt is published by Jonathan Cape.

My Darling from the Lions by Rachel Long, shortlisted for the 2021 Folio prize, is published by Picador.