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“I have no name: I am but two days old.” What shall I call thee? “I happy am, Joy is my name.”…
1 As I ebb’d with the ocean of life, As I wended the shores I know, As I walk’d where the ripples…
Read by Edna O’Brien & Patrick Kennedy
You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention upon my old age; They were not such a plague when…
Read by Lisa Dwan, Emilia Fox & Kelly Reilly
We came upon him sitting in the sun Blinded by war, and left. And past the fence There came young soldiers from…
Read by Harold Pinter, Deborah Findlay & Freddie Fox
Sexual intercourse began In nineteen sixty-three (which was rather late for me) – Between the end of the Chatterley ban And the…
Read by Harold Pinter
On the day of the explosion Shadows pointed towards the pithead: In the sun the slagheap slept. Down the lane came men…
Read by Fiona Shaw, Simon Callow, Bob Geldof + 2 others
If any man drew near When I was young, I thought, “He holds her dear,” And shook with hate and fear. But…
Read by Fiona Shaw, Patrick Kennedy, Simon Callow + 2 others
Why should not old men be mad? Some have known a likely lad That had a sound fly-fisher’s wrist Turn to a…
Read by Rupert Evans
I Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a riband to stick in his coat – Found the…
