“The Horses” by Ted Hughes

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Amy Wetsch

Life, magnified

The Weight of a Stone

Searching for stability in an erratic world led Oliver Sacks and other writers to the realms of geology

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

Double Exposure

On our first memories

Sunrise, Sunset

“The Great Lover” by Rupert Brooke

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Dancing the Imperial Twist

Julian Saporiti on mixing music with history as No-No Boy

The Lives of Bryan

My brother often eluded death, but the many trials that he endured could not prepare us for that awful moment when he finally left us

The Cat’s Meow

“Upon Julia’s Clothes” by Robert Herrick

Poems read aloud, beautifully

Janet Loren Hill

Decontextualized viewpoints

Dying for Fashion

Dana Thomas on how our hunger for new clothes damages the environment and exploits workers

Epithalamium

“I got a collar for the boy, a nice leather number with steel studs that made him look a touch mean and inspired me to get myself a steel-studded camera harness, and off we’d walk, miles a day between jobs.”

Every Stone

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