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Celebrate common humanity, diverse cultures and the importance of poetry in the arts. We’ve put together a collection of recordings which travel widely across continents, histories, and languages. Together they demonstrate the amazing poetic talent drawn from international backgrounds which the Poetry Archive is proud to have in our keeping.
Poet
Robert Louis Stevenson
B. 1850 D. 1894
All that was good, all that was fair, all that was me is gone. - Robert Louis Stevenson 'Sing Me A Song of A Lad That Is Gone'
Poet
Poet
T. S. Eliot
B. 1888 D. 1965
...the communication of the dead/is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living. - from Part 1 of 'Little Gidding', T. S. Eliot
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Poem
Wayside Rest - Justin Quinn
Poem
Mask - Esther Phillips
The Mighty Dead
Home Thoughts, from Abroad
Read by Anthony Thwaite
Home Thoughts, from Abroad - Robert Browning - Read by Anthony Thwaite
The Mighty Dead
Drummer Hodge
Read by Anthony Thwaite
by Thomas Hardy
Drummer Hodge - Thomas Hardy - Read by Anthony Thwaite
The Mighty Dead
Beppo (extract)
Read by Fleur Adcock
by Lord Byron
Beppo (extract) - Lord Byron - Read by Fleur Adcock
Poem
Remembering W H S - Vivian Smith
Poem
by Vivian Smith