Poetry

Hi all,

I recorded a new poem and completely forgot to share it!

It’s one I’ve loved for ages but never got round to recording because it’s such a heartfelt and moving poem I was worried I wouldn’t be able to do it justice. But I’ve been years waiting so I decided to just bite the bullet and hit record. And 54 seconds later here’s the result! Do you like it?

Another Snapchat poetry reading. This time a glorious poem by one of my favourite writers, Margaret Atwood. SIREN SONG This is the one song everyone would like to learn: the song that is irresistible: the song that forces men to leap overboard in squadrons even though they see the beached skulls the song nobody knows […]

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“Untitled” by Edna St. Vincent Millay. Read by Madame Arkadina   Love is not all: it is not meat nor drink Nor slumber nor a roof against the rain;  Nor yet a floating spar to men that sink  And rise and sink and rise and sink again;  Love can not fill the thickened lung with […]

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The latest poem in my quest to improve my memory.   Yes, yours, my love, is the right human face. I in my mind had waited for this long, Seeing the false and searching for the true, Then found you as a traveller finds a place Of welcome suddenly amid the wrong Valleys and rocks […]

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