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Ulysses
Read by Simon Russell Beale
Ulysses - Alfred Tennyson - Read by Simon Russell Beale
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And all I do is eat’ - Adham Smart
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Rock, Paper, Scissors - Richard Osmond
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Surge 3 - Jay Bernard
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David Kinloch
B. 1959
Sparkling poems full of sensuous richness and linguistic inventiveness - Edwin Morgan
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Mark Ford
B. 1962
Poems of serious play, relentlessly experimental but grounded in quotidian specifics, characterized by a consummate strangeness and an oddball ferocity ? David Wojahn
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Edward Thomas
B. 1878 D. 1917
The simple lack / Of her is more to me / Than others' presence. Edward Thomas, 'The Unknown'
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Edward Baugh
B. 1936
I would have words as tenacious as mules/ to bear us, sure-footed/ up the mountain of night... from 'Elemental' by Edward Baugh
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Sylvia Plath
B. 1932 D. 1963
The blood jet is poetry,/ There is no stopping it. - 'Kindness', Sylvia Plath (written 1st February 1963)