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Read by Brian Cox
Skirting the river road, (my forenoon walk, my rest,) Skyward in air a sudden muffled sound, the dalliance of the eagles, The…
Tonight a blackout. Twenty years ago I hung my stocking on the tree, and hell’s Serpent entwined the apple in the toe…
Read by Robert Hardy, Tom Burke, Rupert Evans + 1 other
I don’t want to be a soldier, I don’t want to go to war. I’d rather stay at home, Around the streets…
Read by Charles Dance, Rupert Evans, Robert Hardy + 2 others
The cymbals crash, And the dancers walk, With long white stockings And arms of chalk, Butterfly skirts, And white breasts bare, And…
Read by Harold Pinter, Neil Dudgeon, Samuel West + 1 other
When I see a couple of kids And guess he’s fucking her and she’s Taking pills or wearing a diaphragm, I know…
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…
Sometimes you hear, fifth-hand, As epitaph: He chucked up everything And just cleared off, And always the voice will sound Certain you…
Read by Harold Pinter, Angus Wright & Neil Dudgeon
About twenty years ago Two girls came in where I worked – A bosomy English rose And her friend in specs I…
Read by Neil Dudgeon, Angus Wright & Harold Pinter
Coming up England by a different line For once, early in the cold new year, We stopped, and, watching men with number-plates…
Read by Fiona Shaw, Bob Geldof, Sinéad Cusack + 2 others
A sudden blow: the great wings beating still Above the staggering girl, her thighs caressed By the dark webs, her nape caught…
Read by Sinéad Cusack
Earth in beauty dressed Awaits returning spring. All true love must die, Alter at the best Into some lesser thing. Prove that…
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…
