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Read by Dominic West
The old brown thorn-trees break in two high over Cummen Strand, Under a bitter black wind that blows from the left hand;…
Read by Jeremy Irons, Seamus Heaney, Bob Geldof + 3 others
Although I can see him still – The freckled man who goes To a grey place on a hill In grey Connemara…
Read by Sinéad Cusack
I know, although when looks meet I tremble to the bone, The more I leave the door unlatched The sooner love is…
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 Seamus Heaney, Sinéad Cusack & Lisa Dwan
What need you, being come to sense, But fumble in a greasy till And add the halfpence to the pence And prayer…
Read by Ruth Negga & Edna O’Brien
If I make the lashes dark And the eyes more bright And the lips more scarlet, Or ask if all be right…
Read by Marianne Faithfull, Dominic West & Patrick Kennedy
Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet; She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet. She bid…
Read by Patrick Kennedy, Rupert Evans, Dominic West + 2 others
I know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; Those that I fight I do not hate Those…
Read by Freddie Fox, Lily James, Elizabeth McGovern + 4 others
Written on the occasion of the massacre at Manchester I As I lay asleep in Italy There came a voice from over…
Read by Harriet Walter, Poppy Miller, Elizabeth McGovern + 4 others
Morning and evening Maids heard the goblins cry: “Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy: Apples and quinces, Lemons and…
When I am dead, my dearest, Sing no sad songs for me; Plant thou no roses at my head, Nor shady cypress…
Read by Sophie Cookson & Joanna David
Axes After whose stroke the wood rings, And the echoes! Echoes traveling Off from the center like horses. The sap Wells like…
