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The Listeners

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 313

By Walter de la Mare

Read by Freddie Fox

“Hope” is the thing with feathers

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 78

By Emily Dickinson

Read by Juliet Stevenson

A Hymn to God the Father

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 138

By John Donne

Read by Simon Russell Beale

The Dissolution

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 31

By John Donne

Read by Jack Ambrose

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

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 278

By Paul Durcan

Read by Andrew Bennett & Rory Nolan

The Racist Bone

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 279

By Cornelius Eady

from The Waste Land

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 287

By T. S. Eliot

Read by Giannina Braschi

Our Hands Like Rain

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 292

By Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi

Women and Other Flowers

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 281

By Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi

I want to be like Frank O'Hara

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 161

By Martina Evans

why you cannot touch my hair

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 220

By Eve L. Ewing

Read by Bella Aubin

What Heaney Said

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 148

By FeliSpeaks

poem to be read at the end of a year

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 269

By Bernard Ferguson

On Platforms and in Plate-Glass Waiting Rooms

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 322

By Leontia Flynn

A Christening

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 156

By Tom French

Doña Teresa and the Chicken

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 154

By Denice Frohman

Puertopia

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 168

By Denice Frohman

Beargrass

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 248

By CMarie Fuhrman

Ecce Homo

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 121

By David Gascoyne

Read by Simon Callow

Sorrow Is Not My Name

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 309

By Ross Gay

Read by Jubi Arriola-Headley

Valediction

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 311

By Gabriel Gbadamosi

The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 299

By Jack Gilbert

Read by Elizabeth Marvel

from The Black Maria

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 255

By Aracelis Girmay

Read by Moncho Ollin Alvarado

First Memory

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 314

By Louise Glück

Read by Eisa Davis

The Constructed Space

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 281

By W. S. Graham

Read by Will Harris

We Manage Most When We Manage Small

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 319

By Linda Gregg

Read by Yanyi

The Heart of the Wood

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 160

By Augusta, Lady Gregory

Read by Doireann Ní Ghríofa

I Once Was the Smallest Flame in the Fire

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 279

By Gu Cheng

Read by Chengxi Fu

A Second Opinion

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 87

By Peter Halstead

Common Sense

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 123

By Peter Halstead

Read by Mark di Suvero

Glassmaker

Adrian Brinkerhoff Peter Halstead 15

By Peter Halstead

Read by Eleanor Methven

On the Merits of Literature

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 201

By Peter Halstead

Piano Maker

Adrian Brinkerhoff Peter Halstead 30

By Peter Halstead

Rainbow

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 58

By Peter Halstead

Read by Pedja Muzijevic

Talk: The Death of Shelley

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 28

By Peter Halstead

Free Will

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 243

By Will Harris

Paper Planes

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 136

By Dagogo Hart

Our Bodies, Our Rules

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 287

By Sky Hawkins

Those Winter Sundays

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 266

By Robert Hayden

Read by Roger Robinson

An Advancement of Learning

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 158

By Seamus Heaney

Read by Joseph Aldous

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