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Read by Edna O’Brien, Bob Geldof, Grey Gowrie + 2 others
O’Driscoll drove with a song The wild duck and the drake From the tall and the tufted reeds Of the drear Hart…
Read by Sinéad Cusack
The bees build in the crevices Of loosening masonry, and there The mother birds bring grubs and flies. My wall is loosening;…
Read by Seamus Heaney, Bob Geldof & Simon Callow
I I sought a theme and sought for it in vain, I sought it daily for six weeks or so. Maybe at…
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 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 Edna O’Brien & Patrick Kennedy
A pity beyond all telling Is hid in the heart of love: The folk who are buying and selling, The clouds on…
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 Edward Fox, Harriet Walter, Deborah Findlay + 2 others
[A penny for the Old Guy] I We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with…
The flower that smiles to-day To-morrow dies; All that we wish to stay Tempts and then flies. What is this world’s delight?…
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…
I The fountains mingle with the river And the rivers with the Ocean, The winds of Heaven mix for ever With a…
Read by Lily James, Freddie Fox, Elizabeth McGovern + 5 others
[excerpt] XXXVI Our Adonais has drunk poison – oh! What deaf and viperous murderer could crown Life’s early cup with such a…