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The Orange

By Wendy Cope

Read by Rhianne Barreto

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Lo que cuenta / What Counts

By Óscar Cruz

Read by Legna Rodríguez Iglesias

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Emergency Warning

By Yrsa Daley-Ward

Read by Jessica Revell

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The Listeners

By Walter de la Mare

Read by Freddie Fox

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“Hope” is the thing with feathers

By Emily Dickinson

Read by Juliet Stevenson

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A Hymn to God the Father

By John Donne

Read by Simon Russell Beale

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The Dissolution

By John Donne

Read by Jack Ambrose

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Tullynoe: Tête-à-Tête in the Parish Priest's Parlour

By Paul Durcan

Read by Andrew Bennett & Rory Nolan

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The Racist Bone


By Cornelius Eady

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from The Waste Land

By T. S. Eliot

Read by Giannina Braschi

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Our Hands Like Rain


By Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi

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Women and Other Flowers


By Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi

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I want to be like Frank O'Hara


By Martina Evans

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why you cannot touch my hair

By Eve L. Ewing

Read by Bella Aubin

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What Heaney Said


By FeliSpeaks

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poem to be read at the end of a year


By Bernard Ferguson

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On Platforms and in Plate-Glass Waiting Rooms


By Leontia Flynn

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A Christening


By Tom French

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Doña Teresa and the Chicken


By Denice Frohman

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Puertopia


By Denice Frohman

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Beargrass


By CMarie Fuhrman

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Ecce Homo

By David Gascoyne

Read by Simon Callow

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Sorrow Is Not My Name

By Ross Gay

Read by Jubi Arriola-Headley

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Valediction


By Gabriel Gbadamosi

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Aliens

By Paul Genega

Read by Patrick Rosal

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The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart

By Jack Gilbert

Read by Elizabeth Marvel

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from The Black Maria

By Aracelis Girmay

Read by Moncho Ollin Alvarado

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First Memory

By Louise Glück

Read by Eisa Davis

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The Constructed Space

By W. S. Graham

Read by Will Harris

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We Manage Most When We Manage Small

By Linda Gregg

Read by Yanyi

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The Heart of the Wood

By Augusta, Lady Gregory

Read by Doireann Ní Ghríofa

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I Once Was the Smallest Flame in the Fire

By Gu Cheng

Read by Chengxi Fu

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A Second Opinion


By Peter Halstead

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Common Sense

By Peter Halstead

Read by Mark di Suvero

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Glassmaker

By Peter Halstead

Read by Eleanor Methven

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On the Merits of Literature


By Peter Halstead

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Piano Maker


By Peter Halstead

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Rainbow

By Peter Halstead

Read by Pedja Muzijevic

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Talk: The Death of Shelley


By Peter Halstead

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Free Will


By Will Harris

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