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by Tracey Rhys
The Mighty Dead
Ulysses
Read by Simon Russell Beale
Ulysses - Alfred Tennyson - Read by Simon Russell Beale
The Mighty Dead
Weary with Toil (Sonnet 27)
Read by Rosamund Pike
Weary with Toil (Sonnet 27) - William Shakespeare - Read by Rosamund Pike
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Love Song, 31st July - Richard Osmond
Poem
Explanation For Those Who Don’t Know Love - Holly Hopkins
Poem
To My Father / To My Future Son - Ocean Vuong
Poet
Sharon Olds
B. 1942
“Olds writes “poetry more faithful to the felt truth of reality than any prose could be.” – Richard Wakefield.
Poet
Sarah Howe
B. 1983
Rich and fierce, Sarah Howe's poems are alive to the complex stories and voices that cohere around objects, family and place. . . surprising and moving. . . - EDMUND DE WAAL
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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