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Bernard O’Donoghue
B. 1945
How perilous is it to choose / not to love the life we're shown? -- 'The Badgers,' Seamus Heaney
Poem
Inferno 3.22–136 - Steve Ellis
Poem
A Translator’s Nightmare - Dick Davis
Poem
Ballad of the Bread Man - Charles Causley
The Mighty Dead
Lucifer In Starlight
Read by Glyn Maxwell
Lucifer In Starlight - George Meredith - Read by Glyn Maxwell
Poem
Catching Fire - Nigel McLoughlin
The Mighty Dead
Paradise Lost (extract)
Read by Helen Dunmore
by John Milton