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The shadow well - Richard Berengarten
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The death of children - Richard Berengarten
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Clean out the house - Richard Berengarten
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On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer

Read by Simon Russell Beale
On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer - John Keats - Read by Simon Russell Beale
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How do I Love Thee (Sonnet 43) - Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Read by Judi Dench
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If Thou Must Love Me (Sonnet 14) - Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Read by Rosamund Pike
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The First Day

Read by Judi Dench
The First Day - Christina Rossetti - Read by Judi Dench
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Remember

Read by Rosamund Pike
Remember - Christina Rossetti - Read by Rosamund Pike
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John Keats

B. 1795 D. 1821

7 poems available

Keats was born in London in 1795. His father was killed in a riding accident when Keats was eight; his mother died six years later, probably from tuberculosis. The loss of his parents, especially of his mother, was to help…

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Emily Dickinson

B. 1830 D. 1886

6 poems available

Only seven of Emily Dickinson’s poems were published in her lifetime; these were heavily edited. Many of the rest were found after her death, in little packets bound together to make small books. They were regarded at first as odd,…

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Ogden Nash

B. 1902 D. 1971

2 poems available

Ogden Nash ( 1902-1971) was a master, perhaps the 20th Century master, of light verse whose continuing popularity shows that the term ‘light’ is not incompatible with long-lasting. He was born in Rye, New York, but as a child moved…

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Thom Gunn

B. 1929 D. 2004

3 poems available

Thom Gunn (1929-2004) was a poet whose work thrives on contrast and contradiction: English tradition and American idiom; strict form and free verse; intellectual discipline and physical hedonism are all held in balance in his risk-taking poetry. Gunn was born…

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PJ Kavanagh

B. 1931 D. 2015

5 poems available

P J Kavanagh (1931 – 2015) was the author of eight books of poems, an essayist and travel-writer, a novelist, and editor of the poems of Ivor Gurney; he received the Cholmondely Award for Poetry, the Guardian Fiction Prize, and…

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Where Does the Bounce Come From? - Michael Rosen
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Lights Out

Read by Helen Thomas
Lights Out - Edward Thomas - Read by Helen Thomas
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Where be ye going, you Devon maid? - John Keats - Read by Andrew Motion
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Safe in their Alabaster Chambers - Emily Dickinson - Read by Kei Miller
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