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In The Colonie (an extract: 38) - Michael Rosen
…have you got the chicken? Just because it’s Easter, doesn’t mean it’s warm. It can snow at Easter. Wear the string vest. Who’s organised the coaches? Do we know these…
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…the rudded gold of his watch how pink his nails gleamed through the gloves the white-gold ring like sausage string on a near translucent finger He paused and seemed to…
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Di Great Insohreckshan - Linton Kwesi Johnson
…an di waatah cannan will bring a blam-blam will bring a blam-blam nevah mind Scarman will bring a blam-blam Swamp 81: code name for Brixton police stop-and-search operation in 1981….
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The Glance Returned - Anthony Lawrence
…flying ants, and you search the sky for meaning. Linking stars and smears of low, transparent cloud, you find a wound in the side of an overripe fig; a lizard,…
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…disappeared. Search for him goes on in the growing shadow of the clock. And the face behind the clock’s face is not his father’s face. And the hands behind the…
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…down deep on the evening and turn and walk V Its balm inside and search again briefly for the frequency of family life and I find it in the bath,…
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…The attic steps will pinch your thumb, The cellar will be dark and dumb, Yet should you search your heart with care, Though I am gone, you’ll find me there….
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Come back once more and walk along the shore, a Styrofoam container in your hand, and search again through litter on the sand for shells and seaweed. Start a…
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I know, I Remember, But How Can I Help You - Hayden Carruth
…sparks from our eyes we quiver inside our shocked fur we search for each other in the apple thicket – a glimpse, and acknowledgment is enough and never enough –…
The Classics
The Nightingale’s Nest
Read by Paul Farley
by John Clare
The Nightingale’s Nest - John Clare - Read by Paul Farley
…branches in a gentle way, And stoop right cautious ’neath the rustling boughs, For we will have another search to day, And hunt this fern-strewn thorn-clump round and round; And…
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The Love of Unknown Women - Alan Jenkins
…simmering parks, on summer streets Where they wait but not for you, furtive, you explore The curves of eyebrow, cheek and lip – Of other things too; you search left…
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The Distance Between Us - Tanya Shirley
…warmth of your breasts, assessed his neck was broken. Perhaps turning to search for a distant flock, he flew head first into the grey column of our garage. In the…
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Gary Langford
B. 1947
…of us searching for “voices able to obtrude the false and fickle”, and listeners may hear how far his poetry, and his performance of it, show the results of his…
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…burn out my heart In a forty-year search In this wilderness Of snow and black birch, With only a horse for company Beating on a white tympany? Is this some…
The Classics
Love in a Life
Read by Anthony Thwaite
Love in a Life - Robert Browning - Read by Anthony Thwaite
…goes out as I enter. Spend my whole day in the quest,—who cares? But ’tis twilight, you see,—with such suites to explore, Such closets to search, such alcoves to importune!…
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Christmas in Andalucía - Neil Rollinson
…in Surrey, while here a late sun gleams in the olive groves. Christmas in Andalucía: the search for sunshine, the good life, in a plush hotel – the mini-bar stuffed…
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Simon Armitage
B. 1963
…the form of post-industrial decay, dying moorland communities or climate-change weather, forcing the poet to pry into the into the roots and archaeology of his upbringing in search of meaning,…
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Alison Croggon
B. 1962
…many of the recorded poems. Her aptly entitled sequence, ‘Amplitudes’, is one example of Croggon’s search for an uncompromising and uncompromised language. Mixing the quotidian and the mythic and driven…