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Floral Birth '98

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 171

By Meriem Ahmed

Read by Kayssie K

Amá Teaches Me How to Whistle

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 250

By Moncho Ollin Alvarado

The Lion

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 280

By Mona Arshi

Read by Tiffany Gray

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

in which I hypnotise a tiger

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 286

By Khairani Barokka

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

Dive Bar

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 241

By Caroline Bird

Read by Ellen Moran

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

A Poison Tree

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 231

By William Blake

Read by Patrick Fusco

The Lost Art of Letter Writing

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 277

By Eavan Boland

Read by Jade Jordan

Water Birth

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 261

By Rachel Bower

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

Kissing Distance

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 249

By Anthony Vahni Capildeo

Names

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 151

By Mary Jean Chan

Read by Sofia Oxenham

Blues for Albert ‘Prodigy’ Johnson & Carl ‘Haystee’ Samuel

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 221

By Kayo Chingonyi

Kumukanda

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 163

By Kayo Chingonyi

Read by Paapa Essiedu

Cherishing for Beginners

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 285

By Sarah Clancy

The Echo at Coole

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 265

By Austin Clarke

Read by Tommy Tiernan

turning

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 209

By Lucille Clifton

Read by Cornelius Eady

Some Rules

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 114

By Wendy Cope

Read by Catherine Dryden

Emergency Warning

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 266

By Yrsa Daley-Ward

Read by Jessica Revell

“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 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

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

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

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