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Read by Seamus Heaney, Sinéad Cusack, Lisa Dwan + 2 others
His chosen comrades thought at school He must grow a famous man; He thought the same and lived by rule, All his…
Read by Jeremy Irons, Seamus Heaney, Bob Geldof + 2 others
One that is ever kind said yesterday: ‘Your well-belovéd’s hair has threads of grey, And little shadows come about her eyes; Time…
Read by Ruth Negga, Fiona Shaw, Lisa Dwan + 1 other
We sat together at one summer’s end, That beautiful mild woman, your close friend, And you and I, and talked of poetry….
Read by Eddie Redmayne, Felicity Jones, Gloria Obianyo + 1 other
II. A Game of Chess The Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne, Glowed on the marble, where the glass Held…
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 Elizabeth McGovern
IN THIS AGE OF HARD TRYING NONCHALANCE IS GOOD, AND really, it is not the business of the gods to bake clay…
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 Dominic West, Roger Moore & Henry Goodman
When the flush of a new-born sun fell first on Eden’s green and gold, Our father Adam sat under the Tree and…
Read by Sir Trevor McDonald, Charlotte Rampling, Elizabeth McGovern + 1 other
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And…
Read by Juliet Stevenson
Going to him! Happy letter! Tell him – Tell him the page I didn’t write; Tell him I only said the syntax,…
I died for beauty, but was scarce Adjusted in the tomb, When one who died for truth was lain In an adjoining…
Read by Colin Salmon, Lily James, Freddie Fox + 5 others
I So, we’ll go no more a roving So late into the night, Though the heart be still as loving, And the…
