I heard it was an emergency, so I emerged.
As an actor, I can’t do much without face to face contact. But I can read verse. If me reading a particular poem would make you happy, let me know and I’ll post it on @SoundCloud. I’ll try and do at least one a day x
As an actor, I can’t do much without face to face contact. But I can read verse. If me reading a particular poem would make you happy, let me know and I’ll post it on @SoundCloud. I’ll try and do at least one a day x
Thanks for your myriad brilliant suggestions. I’ll post the first ones tomorrow.
Meanwhile, if anyone needs a bedtime story, this might be useful for dealing with extra tantrums. You know what adults are like.
Samuel West - Angry Arthur: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b072ngs2 via @bbciplayer
Meanwhile, if anyone needs a bedtime story, this might be useful for dealing with extra tantrums. You know what adults are like.
Samuel West - Angry Arthur: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b072ngs2 via @bbciplayer
Right, here we go then. Hope you like them.
01 The Darkling Thrush, by Thomas Hardy
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01 The Darkling Thrush, by Thomas Hardy
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02 The Lion and Albert by Marriott Edgar
https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/02-the-lion-and-albert-by-marriott-edgar
https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/02-the-lion-and-albert-by-marriott-edgar
03 I Opened a Book by Julia Donaldson
Thanks for all your brilliant suggestions. More tomorrow
https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/03-i-opened-a-book-by-julia-donaldson
Thanks for all your brilliant suggestions. More tomorrow
https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/03-i-opened-a-book-by-julia-donaldson
04 The Good Morrow by John Donne
https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/04-the-good-morrow-by-john-donne
https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/04-the-good-morrow-by-john-donne
05 Wild Geese by Mary Oliver https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/05-wild-geese-by-mary-oliver
06 On the Ning Nang Nong by Spike Milligan
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https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/06-on-the-ning-nang-song-by-spike-milligan
07 To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell
Happy #NationalPoetryDay #PandemicPoems
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Happy #NationalPoetryDay #PandemicPoems
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08 His Coy Mistress to Mr Marvell by A D Hope
Happy #NationalPoetryDay #PandemicPoems
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Happy #NationalPoetryDay #PandemicPoems
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09 Sometimes by Sheenagh Pugh
Happy #NationalPoetryDay. I hope you enjoy the readings. Tomorrow - guest readers! #PandemicPoems
https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/09-sometimes-by-sheenagh-pugh
Happy #NationalPoetryDay. I hope you enjoy the readings. Tomorrow - guest readers! #PandemicPoems
https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/09-sometimes-by-sheenagh-pugh
Today's recordings include one by that fabulous reader @emmagafielding. Happy Sunday, all #PandemicPoems
10 The Mower by Philip Larkin
https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/10-the-mower-by-philip-larkin
10 The Mower by Philip Larkin
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11 Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 by William Wordsworth #PandemicPoems
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12 The Horses by Edwin Muir, read by Emma Fielding @emmagafielding #PandemicPoems
https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/12-the-horses-by-edwin-muir-read-by-emma-fielding
https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/12-the-horses-by-edwin-muir-read-by-emma-fielding
13 The Land of Counterpane by Robert Louis Stevenson
For #MothersDay #PandemicPoems
https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/13-the-land-of-counterpane-robert-louis-stevenson
For #MothersDay #PandemicPoems
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14 The Ballad of Sweeney Todd by Stephen Sondheim
For SS @ 90
#Sondheim90Love @SondheimSociety
https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/14-the-ballad-of-sweeney-todd-by-stephen-sondheim
For SS @ 90

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15 The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes
Requested by @spanglotron et al. Picture by Charles Keeping. More guest readers tomorrow #PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/15-the-highwayman-by-alfred-noyes
Requested by @spanglotron et al. Picture by Charles Keeping. More guest readers tomorrow #PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/15-the-highwayman-by-alfred-noyes
16 Sonnet 19 by John Milton
Day 6 of #PandemicPoems Guest readers today are @louisebrealey, @dudgeon_neil and @emmagafielding https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/16-sonnet-19-by-john-milton
Day 6 of #PandemicPoems Guest readers today are @louisebrealey, @dudgeon_neil and @emmagafielding https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/16-sonnet-19-by-john-milton
17 Intimacy by Nina Cassian, read by @louisebrealey
https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/17-intimacy-by-nina-cassian
https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/17-intimacy-by-nina-cassian
18 Book Ends I & II by Tony Harrison, read by @dudgeon_neil
https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/18-book-ends-i-ii-by-tony-harrison
https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/18-book-ends-i-ii-by-tony-harrison
19 The Lake Isle Of Innisfree by W B Yeats, read by @emmagafielding
https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/19-the-lake-isle-of-innisfree-by-w-b-yeats
https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/19-the-lake-isle-of-innisfree-by-w-b-yeats
20 The World Is A Beautiful Place by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
For Ferlinghetti's 101st birthday #ferlinghetti101 #PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/20-the-world-is-a-beautiful-place-by-lawrence-ferlinghetti
For Ferlinghetti's 101st birthday #ferlinghetti101 #PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/20-the-world-is-a-beautiful-place-by-lawrence-ferlinghetti
21 The Peace Of Wild Things by Wendell Berry
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22 Love After Love by Derek Walcott, read by @InuaEllams
#PandemicPoems
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23 Bedroom Poem by Roger McGough #PandemicPoems
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https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/23-bedroom-poem-by-roger-mcgough
24 Invictus by William Ernest Henley, requested by @malorieblackman et al #PandemicPoems
https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/24-invictus-by-william-ernest-henley
https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/24-invictus-by-william-ernest-henley
25 If I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking by Emily Dickinson #PandemicPoems
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https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/25-if-i-can-stop-one-heart-from-breaking-by-emily-dickinson
26 Disobedience by A A Milne #StayAtHome 
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27 The Tale Of Custard The Dragon by Ogden Nash, read by @emmagafielding. Illustration by Lynn Munsinger #PandemicPoems #JeSuisCustard
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https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/27-the-tale-of-custard-the-dragon-by-ogden-nash
28 Everyone Sang by Siegfried Sassoon
For #ClapForNHS #PandemicPoems
https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/28-everyone-sang-by-siegfried-sassoon
For #ClapForNHS #PandemicPoems
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29 Londoner by Fleur Adcock, read by @louisebrealey
#PandemicPoems
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30 Sometimes A Wild God by Tom Hirons http://tomhirons.com
#PandemicPoems Illustration by Rima Staines https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/30-sometimes-a-wild-god-by-tom-hirons
#PandemicPoems Illustration by Rima Staines https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/30-sometimes-a-wild-god-by-tom-hirons
31 Black March by Stevie Smith
#PandemicPoems day 8 https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/31-black-march-by-stevie-smith
#PandemicPoems day 8 https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/31-black-march-by-stevie-smith
32 Cloudbusting by Kate Bush
For @NadiaShireen. Illustration by her.
#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/32-cloudbusting-by-kate-bush
For @NadiaShireen. Illustration by her.
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33 Still I Rise by Maya Angelou, read by Adjoa Andoh @andoh_adjoa
#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/33-still-i-rise-by-maya-angelou-read-by-adjoa-andoh
#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/33-still-i-rise-by-maya-angelou-read-by-adjoa-andoh
34 My Husband Was Very Cuddly by Rosie Wheatland
For @EntelechyArts #PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/34-my-husband-was-very-cuddly-by-rosie-wheatland
For @EntelechyArts #PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/34-my-husband-was-very-cuddly-by-rosie-wheatland
35 The Lost Joseph by Hafez of Shiraz (یوسف گمگشته بازآید به کنعان غم مخور), read by @khalidabdalla
#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/35-the-lost-joseph-by-hafez-read-by-khalid-abdalla
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36 The Jumblies by Edward Lear
#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/the-jumblies-by-edward-lear
#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/the-jumblies-by-edward-lear
37 Atlas by U A Fanthorpe
#PandemicPoems day 10 @EnitharmonPress
https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/37-atlas-by-u-a-fanthorpe
#PandemicPoems day 10 @EnitharmonPress
https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/37-atlas-by-u-a-fanthorpe
38 Waltz by Edith Sitwell, read by Prunella Scales
#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/waltz-by-edith-sitwell-read-by-prunella-scales
#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/waltz-by-edith-sitwell-read-by-prunella-scales
39 My Last Duchess by Robert Browning, read by Timothy West
#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/39-my-last-duchess-by-robert-browning-read-by-timothy-west
#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/39-my-last-duchess-by-robert-browning-read-by-timothy-west
40 Comment dire / What is the Word by Samuel Beckett, read by Joseph West @JoJoLaWe
#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/40-comment-dire-what-is-the-word-by-samuel-beckett-read-by-joseph-west
#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/40-comment-dire-what-is-the-word-by-samuel-beckett-read-by-joseph-west
41 These Are The Hands by Michael Rosen
For @MichaelRosenYes #GetWellSoonMichael #PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/41-these-are-the-hands-by-michael-rosen
For @MichaelRosenYes #GetWellSoonMichael #PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/41-these-are-the-hands-by-michael-rosen
42 One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/42-one-art-by-elizabeth-bishop
#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/42-one-art-by-elizabeth-bishop
43 Walking Away by C Day Lewis, read by @dudgeon_neil
#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/43-walking-away-by-c-day-lewis-read-by-neil-dudgeon
#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/43-walking-away-by-c-day-lewis-read-by-neil-dudgeon
44 Cargoes by John Masefield
#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/44-cargoes-by-john-masefield
#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/44-cargoes-by-john-masefield
45 The More Loving One by W H Auden
#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/45-the-more-loving-one-by-w-h-auden
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46 The Child-God Of Chaos by @InuaEllams, read by the author
#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/45-the-child-god-of-chaos-by-inua-ellams-read-by-the-author
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47 To Althea from Prison by Richard Lovelace
#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/47-to-althea-from-prison-by-richard-lovelace
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48 Keeping Quiet by Pablo Neruda
Translated by Alastair Reid #PandemicPoems
https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/48-keeping-quiet-by-pablo-neruda
Translated by Alastair Reid #PandemicPoems
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49 April Rise by Laurie Lee
#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/49-april-rise-by-laurie-lee
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50 Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost, read by @emmagafielding
#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/50-stopping-by-woods-on-a-snowy-evening-by-robert-frost-read-by-emma-fielding
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51 Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold
#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/51-dover-beach-by-matthew-arnold
#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/51-dover-beach-by-matthew-arnold
52 Good Bones by Maggie Smith
#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/52-good-bones-by-maggie-smith
#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/52-good-bones-by-maggie-smith
53 A Shropshire Lad XL by A E Housman, read by @beatieedney
#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/53-a-shropshire-lad-xl-by-a-e-housman-read-by-beatie-edney
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54 Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll
#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/54-jabberwocky-by-lewis-carroll
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55 On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer by John Keats
#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/55-on-first-looking-into-chapmans-homer-by-john-keats
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56 Not Waving But Drowning by Stevie Smith, read by @RebeccaFront
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57 The Listeners by Walter de la Mare
#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/57-the-listeners-by-walter-de-la-mare
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58 For Desire by Kim Addonizio, read by @Susan_Wokoma
#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/58-for-desire-by-kim-addonizio-read-by-susan-wokoma
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59 Live Forever by Noel Gallagher
#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/live-forever-by-noel-gallagher
#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/live-forever-by-noel-gallagher
60 The Orange by Wendy Cope
With thanks to the author for permission to read and reproduce her work on #PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/60-the-orange-by-wendy-cope
With thanks to the author for permission to read and reproduce her work on #PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/60-the-orange-by-wendy-cope
61 Michiko Dead by Jack Gilbert
#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/61-michiko-dead-by-jack-gilbert
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62 [i carry your heart with me(i carry it in] by e. e. cummings, read by @beatieedney
#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/62-i-carry-your-heart-with-mei-carry-it-in-by-e-e-cummings-read-by-beatie-edney
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63 No Man is an Island from Meditation XVII by John Donne
#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/63-no-man-is-an-island-from-meditation-xvii-by-john-donne
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64 Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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65 The Way We Go by Katharine Towers
With thanks to the poet for permission to read and post her work here
#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/65-the-way-we-go-by-katharine-towers
With thanks to the poet for permission to read and post her work here
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66 Digging by Seamus Heaney
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67 The Book Of My Enemy Has Been Remaindered by Clive James, read by Deborah Frances-White @DeborahFW
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68 Litany by Billy Collins
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69 The Windhover by Gerard Manley Hopkins
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70 Hope Is The Thing With Feathers by Emily Dickinson, read by @beatieedney
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71 The Eagle by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, read by Timothy West
#PandemicPoems https://soundcloud.com/user-115260978/71-the-eagle-by-alfred-lord-tennyson-read-by-timothy-west
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72 Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798 by William Wordsworth
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73 Church Going by Philip Larkin
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74 To A Mouse by Robert Burns, read by Nicholas Ralph
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75 Diary Of A Church Mouse by John Betjeman
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76 Refugees by Brian Bilston
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77 Some keep the Sabbath going to Church by Emily Dickinson, read by @emmagafielding
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78 Into My Arms by Nick Cave
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79 Television, from 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory' by Roald Dahl
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80 Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe
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81 He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven by W B Yeats, read by @beatieedney
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82 On Time For Once by Brian Patten
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83 Smiling Is Infectious by Karen McLendon-Laumann(?)
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84 The Fall Of Rome by W H Auden
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85 The Germ by Ogden Nash
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86 'For I Will Consider My Cat Jeoffry', from Jubilate Agno by Christopher Smart
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87 Cats Sleep Anywhere by Eleanor Farjeon, read by @beatieedney
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88 A 14-Year-Old Convalescent Cat in Winter by Gavin Ewart
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89 Daddy Fell Into The Pond by Alfred Noyes
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90 If– by Rudyard Kipling, read by Timothy West
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91 Prayer for My Father as a Child by Miriam Nash
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92 As the Team's Head Brass by Edward Thomas
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93 The Horses by Ted Hughes, read by @emmagafielding
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94 Is My Team Ploughing? by A E Housman
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95 Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti
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96 Abou Ben Adhem by Leigh Hunt
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97 The Harlot's House by Oscar Wilde, read by Gyles Brandreth @GylesB1
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98 Something Changed by Pulp
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99 Autumn Journal IV by Louis MacNeice
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100 The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost, read by Eddie Redmayne
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101 Inversnaid by Gerard Manley Hopkins, read by @emmagafielding
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102 Frost At Midnight by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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103 Choosing A Name by Mary Lamb
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104 This Be The Verse by Philip Larkin, read by @beatieedney
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105 After The Lunch by Wendy Cope
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106 Scaffolding by Seamus Heaney, read by @itsjessregan
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107 In the Evening We Shall Be Examined on Love, by Thomas Centolella
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108 The Soldier by Rupert Brooke, read by Paterson Joseph @ignatius_sancho
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109 Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare, read by Juliet Stevenson
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110 Sonnet 65 by William Shakespeare, read by Kobna Holdbrook-Smith @HoldbrooksMyth
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111 Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare, read by @emmagafielding
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112 Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare, read by Eddie Redmayne
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113 Sonnet 19 by William Shakespeare, read by @Andoh_Adjoa
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114 Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare
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115 Sonnet 73 by William Shakespeare, read by Timothy West
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116 A Book by Emily Dickinson
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117 Musée des Beaux Arts by W H Auden, read by @dudgeon_neil
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118 Solitude, from Childe Harold's Pilgrimage by George Gordon, Lord Byron
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119 Too Many Daves by Dr Seuss
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120 A Silly Poem by Adam Bojelian
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121 I Want The Faith by Linnet Drury
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122 Printer's Error by P G Wodehouse
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123 Firestarter by The Prodigy
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124 The London Breed by Benjamin Zephaniah, read by Paterson Joseph @ignatius_sancho
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125 I Wanna Be Yours by John Cooper Clarke
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126 Déjeuner du matin (Breakfast) by Jacques Prévert, read by Hedwige West
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127 Quarantine by Eavan Boland, read by @ellahickson
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128 Desiderata by Max Ehrmann
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129 Silence by Thomas Hood
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130 Sounds Of The Day by Norman MacCaig, read by Nicholas Ralph
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131 Prayer Before Birth by Louis MacNeice
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132 You're by Sylvia Plath, read by @emmagafielding
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133 Through a Glass Darkly by Arthur Hugh Clough
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134 I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (Daffodils) by William Wordsworth
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135 Spring by Gerard Manley Hopkins
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136 Naming Of Parts, from 'Lessons of the War' by Henry Reed
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137 London by William Blake
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138 A Ritual to Read to Each Other by William E Stafford
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139 Daffodil Ministry by U A Fanthorpe
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140 Dog in the Playground by Allan Ahlberg
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141 Before You Cut Loose by Simon Armitage, read by
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142 An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog by Oliver Goldsmith
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143 Invitation by Mary Oliver
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144 Rice Pudding by A A Milne, read by Nina Sosonya
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145 The Last Living Rose by PJ Harvey
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146 The History Teacher by Billy Collins
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147 This Is The Time To Be Slow by John O'Donohoe, read by Jessica Regan @itsjessregan
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148 Opening Crawl from STAR WARS by George Lucas
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149 Night Mail by W H Auden
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150 Adelstrop by Edward Thomas
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151 From A Railway Carriage by Robert Louis Stevenson
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152 O Me! O Life! by Walt Whitman
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153 Arrival By R S Thomas, read by Amy Morgan @AmyMogs
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154 Late Fragment by Raymond Carver
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155 Ode To A Nightingale by John Keats
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156 L'Albatros (The Albatross) by Charles Baudelaire, read by Joe West @JoJoLaWe
Translated by A Z Foreman, and reproduced with permission
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157 To A Nightingale by R F Langley
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158 Shadows by D H Lawrence, read by @Susie_Dent
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159 Storm Warnings by Adrienne Rich, read by @LouiseBrealey
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160 Pandemic by Lynn Ungar, read by @BeatieEdney
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161 Lie in the Dark and Listen by Noël Coward
For #VEDay75
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162 In Time of ‘The Breaking of Nations’ by Thomas Hardy, read by Richard Trinder @rich_trinder
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163 High Flight by John Gillespie McGee Jr.
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164 Fern Hill by Dylan Thomas
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165 The Way Things Are by Roger McGough, read by @StephenMangan
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166 I Saw A Jolly Hunter by Charles Causley
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167 Albert's Return by Marriott Edgar
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168 Little Red Cap by Carol Ann Duffy, read by Beatie Edney
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169 Childhood These Days by @MarkAntonyOwen
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170 The Lowest Trees Have Tops by Sir Edward Dyer
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171 Sonnet 43 (How Do I Love Thee?) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning, read by Nina Sosonya
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172 Not To Mention Love: A Heart for Patricia by David Clewell
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173 Sea Fever by John Masefield
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174 Toads by Philip Larkin, read by @dudgeon_neil
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175 Dirge Without Music by Edna St Vincent Millay
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176 I Must Go Down to the Sea Again by Spike Milligan
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177 My Own Heart Let Me More Have Pity On by Gerard Manley Hopkins
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178 The Eve of St Agnes by John Keats, read by Jamie Parker @DickLeFenwick
Poem text here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44470/the-eve-of-st-agnes Watercolour by John Everett Millais
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Poem text here: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44470/the-eve-of-st-agnes Watercolour by John Everett Millais
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179 Kindness by Naomi Shihab Nye
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180 Oxford Canal by James Elroy Flecker
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181 The Rolling English Road by G K Chesterton, read by Timothy West
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182 We Are Wimbledon - The 1988 Wimbledon FC FA Cup Squad
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183 Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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184 Do Take Muriel Out by Stevie Smith, read by @RebeccaFront
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185 Eldorado by Edgar Allan Poe
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186 She Walks In Beauty by George Gordon, Lord Byron
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187 Green Eggs and Ham by Dr Seuss, read by @Quinlan_Carrie
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188 The Song of the Ungirt Runners by Charles Hamilton Sorley
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189 The Trees by Philip Larkin
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190 This Is A Low by Blur
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191 A Smuggler's Song by Rudyard Kipling
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192 Lullaby by W H Auden
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193 Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns, read by Nicholas Ralph
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194 No Sense of Direction by Vernon Scannell
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195 Piano by D H Lawrence
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196 Morning Song by Sylvia Plath, read by @emmagafielding
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197 Block City by Robert Louis Stevenson
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198 Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas
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199 If I Don't Know by Wendy Cope
Read and reproduced by kind permission of the author
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Read and reproduced by kind permission of the author
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200 Autumn Journal XIX by Louis MacNeice
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201 Youth and Age on Beaulieu River Hants by John Betjeman
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202 When You Are Old by W B Yeats, read by @beatieedney
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203 The Old Stoic by Emily Brontë
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204 The Flea by John Donne
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205 Silly Old Baboon by Spike Milligan
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206 The Rat by Don Paterson
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207 Henry King, Who Chewed bits of String, and was early
cut off in Dreadful Agonies, by Hilaire Belloc
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cut off in Dreadful Agonies, by Hilaire Belloc
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208 Mamoyi by Kendel Hippolyte, read by Sibusiso Mamba @spoorah
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209 I Remember, I Remember by Thomas Hood
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210 The Second Coming by W B Yeats
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211 Children Will Listen, from 'Into The Woods' by Stephen Sondheim
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212 somewhere i have never travelled gladly beyond by e.e. cummings
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213 Celia, Celia by Adrian Mitchell
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214 Echo by Christina Rossetti, read by @beatieedney
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215 Song, 'My Dear Mistress Has A Heart' by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
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216 From 'Epitaphs Of The War' by Rudyard Kipling
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217 Oh Freddled Gruntbuggly by Prostetnic Vogon Jeltz / Douglas Adams
For #TowelDay #TowelDay2020
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218 To A Poet A Thousand Years Hence by James Elroy Flecker
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219 A Blade Of Grass by Brian Patten, read by @emmagafielding
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220 The Thought Fox by Ted Hughes
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