Birthday Boy

“The Horses” by Ted Hughes

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Amy Wetsch

Life, magnified

New Year, Old Year

“The Horses” by Edwin Muir

Poems read aloud, beautifully

The Snow Maiden

Our final episode of 2018 is a send-off to the solstice

Ho Ho Horror

Why not make this Christmas a little darker?

A Story for Christmas

“Snow” by Louis MacNeice

Poems read aloud, beautifully

The Diagnostician of Despair

Why Rousseau believed that Enlightenment values would lead us to ruin

“Tristan da Cunha” by Roy Campbell

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Paradise Reclaimed

Olivia Laing on the dark histories and utopian dreams of the flower bed

Femmes Fantastiques

Mickalene Thomas and the art of remixing

The Support Ship

“The Last Words of My English Grandmother”

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Sheep Jones

Swimming below the surface

Martha Foley’s Granddaughters

What the esteemed literary editor never knew about the life of her troubled son, David Burnett

Last Laugh

“À une passante” by Charles Baudelaire

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Bathing Badasses

Vicki Valosik gets submerged in the history of synchronized swimming

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