W.H. Auden takes us on a tour of a glittering city… and gives us a glimpse of the rot that lies beneath
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The Road
Nancy Cato races time itself – and almost wins – in this exhilarating ballad from Australia
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an afternoon nap
Arthur Yap is woken from his daily snooze by a piano lesson gone awry
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A Long Journey
Follow Musaemura Zimunya back up an endless river into Zimbabwe’s forgotten past
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The Enemies
Elizabeth Jennings explores the poisonous power of paranoia in this cold-war parable
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The Man with Night Sweats
Thom Gunn gives form to fear in a time of crisis.
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He Never Expected Much
Don’t look back in anger, advises Thomas Hardy; but is he hiding deeper regrets?
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The Spirit is too Blunt an Instrument
Anne Stevenson’s philosophical poem asks what it means to be truly alive.
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On Finding a Small Fly Crushed in a Book
Charles Tennyson Turner finds himself unexpectedly moved by a tiny tragedy.
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Verses Written on her Death-Bed at Bath
Mary Monck ruminates on death and life in this touching verse-letter.
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