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Meditation on Patience

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 171

By Ariel Francisco

The Sea Can Stand Anything—I Can’t

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 144

By Ariel Francisco

Puertopia

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 168

By Denice Frohman

Ecce Homo

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 121

By David Gascoyne

Read by Simon Callow

Love in the Time of Coronavirus

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 61

By Nikita Gill

Read by Catherine Dryden

Elegy

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 44

By Aracelis Girmay

Read by Denice Frohman

Collection: Postcard Poems

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 51

By Peter Halstead

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Collection: Sea Sun

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 187

By Peter Halstead

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Putting the World to Bed

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 62

By Peter Halstead

Read 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

Collection: Blinds

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 127

By Peter Halstead

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Collection: Face Your Dreams

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By Peter Halstead

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Collection: Poems of Earth

Adrian Brinkerhoff Peter Halstead 37

By Peter Halstead

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Collection: Sublimation

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 120

By Peter Halstead

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A Broken Appointment

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 177

By Thomas Hardy

I Look into My Glass

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 210

By Thomas Hardy

The Darkling Thrush

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 187

By Thomas Hardy

To Lizbie Browne

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 07

By Thomas Hardy

Songs for the People

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 140

By Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

The Crocuses

Adrian Brinkerhoff Peter Halstead 13

By Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

The Slave Mother

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 201

By Frances Ellen Watkins Harper

Carp Poem

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 173

By Terrance Hayes

Read by Raymond Antrobus

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

Digging

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 27

By Seamus Heaney

Girls Bathing, Galway, 1965

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 203

By Seamus Heaney

Read by Marian Richardson

Glanmore Sonnets

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 98

By Seamus Heaney

Evening Poem

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 69

By Seán Hewitt

Read by Andrew McMillan

Dreams

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 175

By Helen Hunt Jackson

Opportunity

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 194

By Helen Hunt Jackson

Tides

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 143

By Helen Hunt Jackson

Blind Boone’s Blessings

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 17

By Tyehimba Jess

Blind Boone’s Vision

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 113

By Tyehimba Jess

Black Woman

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 144

By Georgia Douglas Johnson

Hope

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 179

By Georgia Douglas Johnson

I Want to Die While You Love Me

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 164

By Georgia Douglas Johnson

In the Shadows

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 119

By E. Pauline Johnson

Marshlands

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 137

By E. Pauline Johnson

Sonnet to the Mantled

Adrian Brinkerhoff Matthew Thompson 119

By Georgia Douglas Johnson

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