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“Ultimately though, Poetry is no more than U N I in conVERSEsensation” – Celia A Sorhaindo

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Ghana by Air - Nii Ayikwei Parkes
Poem
Outside St Dominic’s Priory: Snapshot, July 2015 - Keith Jarrett
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Diptych - Victoria Adukwei Bulley
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Afterword, London 2020 - Keith Jarrett
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4 poems available

“..and only they, children, excellent students of their own self worth, do know the value of their lives - from 'Outside St Dominic's Priory. Snapshot, July 2015'”

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Mama Amazonica - Pascale Petit
Special Collection

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.

The Mighty Dead

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
The Mighty Dead

Ulysses

Read by Simon Russell Beale
Ulysses - Alfred Tennyson - Read by Simon Russell Beale
Interview

Sujata Bhatt is a poet of many different cultures: in this interview, she talks about her travels and how they've influenced her writing and lets us into the "private and inner world" of making poems.

Special Collection

This Special Collection brings together some of the recordings we’ve made over the years with poets from Scotland. Edwin Morgan recorded his reading for the Archive in his flat in Glasgow back in 2000, Douglas Dunn made his Archive recording…

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