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Dear Mother, dear Mother, the Church is cold, But the Ale-house is healthy & pleasant & warm; Besides I can tell where…
My mother groand! my father wept. Into the dangerous world I leapt: Helpless, naked, piping loud; Like a fiend hid in a…
When my mother died I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry ” ‘weep!…
Read by Alicia Vikander, Lisa Dwan, Emilia Fox + 1 other
Will the train never start? God, make the train start. She cannot bear it, keeping up so long; and he, he no…
In the bleak mid-winter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on…
Read by Harriet Walter
Who told my mother of my shame, Who told my father of my dear? Oh who but Maude, my sister Maude, Who…
Read by Frieda Hughes & Monica Dolan
The woman is perfected. Her dead Body wears the smile of accomplishment, The illusion of a Greek necessity Flows in the scrolls…
There were no undesirables or girls in my set, when I was a boy at Mattapoisett- only Mother, still her Father’s daughter….
Read by Charles Dance
Nautilus Island’s hermit heiress still lives through winter in her Spartan cottage; her sheep still graze above the sea. Her son’s a…
Read by Harold Pinter
Summer is fading: The leaves fall in ones and twos From trees bordering The new recreation ground. In the hollows of afternoons…
Read by Poppy Miller, Derek Jacobi, Alexandra Dowling + 1 other
The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss…
Read by Sophie Cookson, Joanna David & Monica Dolan
Love set you going like a fat gold watch. The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry Took its place among…
