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My mother groand! my father wept. Into the dangerous world I leapt: Helpless, naked, piping loud; Like a fiend hid in a…
Read by Harold Pinter
Groping back to bed after a piss I part thick curtains, and am startled by The rapid clouds, the moon’s cleanliness. Four…
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…
[excerpt] ‘What Power delights to torture us? I know That to myself I do not wholly owe What now I suffer, though…
Read by Roger Moore
[1914-18] (‘The Honours of War’ – A Diversity of Creatures) These were our children who died for our lands; they were dear…
Read by Bob Geldof, Evanna Lynch & Patrick Kennedy
My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate…
Read by Monica Dolan, Felicity Jones & Gloria Obianyo
The buzz saw snarled and rattled in the yard And made dust and dropped stove-length sticks of wood, Sweet-scented stuff when the…
Read by Juliet Stevenson & Lindsay Duncan
There’s a certain Slant of light, Winter Afternoons – That oppresses, like the Heft Of Cathedral Tunes – Heavenly Hurt, it gives…
After great pain, a formal feeling comes – The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs – The stiff Heart questions was it He,…
