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Floral Birth '98

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 171

By Meriem Ahmed

Read by Kayssie K

The Illegitimate

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 166

By ATMOS Collective

As I Walked Out One Evening

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 115

By W. H. Auden

Read by Peter Halstead

The Unknown Citizen

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 11

By W. H. Auden

Read by Bobby Hirston

Apophasis at the All-Night Rite Aid

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 267

By Catherine Barnett

Read by Nicole Sealey

10 Things I Want To Say to a Black Woman

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 177

By Joshua Bennett

Read by Samuel Yakura

The Republic of Motherhood

Arles 2018 4322

By Liz Berry

One Art

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 275

By Elizabeth Bishop

Read by John Murillo

Wellspring: Words from Water

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 272

By Kimberly M. Blaeser

The Lost Art of Letter Writing

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 277

By Eavan Boland

Read by Jade Jordan

Black Girl Magic

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 140

By Mahogany L. Browne

If 2017 was a poem title

Adrian Brinkerhoff Peter Halstead 16

By Mahogany L. Browne

Names

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 151

By Mary Jean Chan

Read by Sofia Oxenham

Kumukanda

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 163

By Kayo Chingonyi

Read by Paapa Essiedu

The Echo at Coole

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 265

By Austin Clarke

Read by Tommy Tiernan

Some Rules

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 114

By Wendy Cope

Read by Catherine Dryden

“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

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

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 278

By Paul Durcan

Read by Andrew Bennett & Rory Nolan

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

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

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

Ecce Homo

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 121

By David Gascoyne

Read by Simon Callow

The Heart of the Wood

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 160

By Augusta, Lady Gregory

Read by Doireann Ní Ghríofa

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

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

Paper Planes

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 136

By Dagogo Hart

An Advancement of Learning

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 158

By Seamus Heaney

Read by Joseph Aldous

Clearances

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 61

By Seamus Heaney

Read by Aaron Monaghan

Girls Bathing, Galway 1965

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 203

By Seamus Heaney

Read by Marian Richardson

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

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 270

By Seamus Heaney

Read by Marty Rea

Barn Owls in Suffolk

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 165

By Seán Hewitt

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