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Girls Bathing, Galway 1965

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 203

By Seamus Heaney

Read by Marian Richardson

Mossbawn: Sunlight

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 288

By Seamus Heaney

Read by Bríd Brennan

Station Island VII (I had come to the edge of the water)

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 270

By Seamus Heaney

Read by Marty Rea

So Many Dreams

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 288

By Essex Hemphill

Read by Ato Blankson-Wood

To the Harbour (Ke Pelabuhan)

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 269

By Toeti Heraty

Read by Khairani Barokka

Barn Owls in Suffolk

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 165

By Seán Hewitt

Insurance Man 1946

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 259

By Sean Hill

Bright

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 271

By Kendel Hippolyte

Read by Anthony Vahni Capildeo

The Sandhills

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 275

By Linda Hogan

Read by CMarie Fuhrman

from Love Minus Love

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 213

By Wayne Holloway-Smith

Read by Andrew McMillan

Some Waynes

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 135

By Wayne Holloway-Smith

Read by Andrew McMillan

ba•by

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 274

By Darrel Alejandro Holnes

No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief.

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 277

By Gerard Manley Hopkins

Read by David Bankole

The Windhover

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 74

By Gerard Manley Hopkins

Read by Mark di Suvero

Singularity

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 200

By Marie Howe

Tea

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 281

By Hanan Issa

Read by Charlotte Delima

Blind Boone’s Blessings

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 17

By Tyehimba Jess

Blind Boone’s Vision

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 113

By Tyehimba Jess

Oceans

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 277

By Juan Ramón Jiménez

Read by Marie Howe

Moose Dreams

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 252

By William Johnson

Read by Sarah M. Sala

Poem for Haruko

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 223

By June Jordan

Read by Freddie MacBruce

Tilly

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 308

By James Joyce

Read by Jade Jordan

My Sister as a Body

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 83

By Kayssie K

Charcoal Iron

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 142

By Nithy Kasa

On the very last note of the cadence

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 320

By Nithy Kasa

Read by Jade Jordan

The Hospital

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 266

By Patrick Kavanagh

Read by Aaron Monaghan

Joyce's City

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 309

By David Keenan

Alternative Medicine

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 303

By Victoria Kennefick

Swimming Lesson

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 309

By Victoria Kennefick

Another September

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 268

By Thomas Kinsella

Read by Seán McGinley

My Mother Quit Bread

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 279

By Cecilia Knapp

A letter to remind myself who I am

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 234

By Shane Koyczan

Read by Sky Hawkins

Still Life with Nursing Bra

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 244

By Keetje Kuipers

Cinderella

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 201

By Tia Laurent

Read by Cathy Halstead

From Blossoms

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 293

By Li-Young Lee

Read by Rachel Bower

Gone Ladies

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 328

By Christopher Logue

Read by Simon Callow

ode to edge control gel

By Theresa Lola

Skinology

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 36

By Adrian C. Louis

Read by Jake Skeets

Saddle

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 12

By Corbin Louis

Read by Dagogo Hart

Reggae Story

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 206

By Hannah Lowe

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