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Introduction by Robbie
About the poems
Robbie introduces the poetry readings · TBC
The poems came first. Before War and Peace, before Dickens, before any of the great novels, there were poems. The reading project began in April 2020 with poetry and short pieces — small, complete things that could be read in a few minutes and that carried their own weight of feeling.
The poems have continued throughout, woven between the novels like a thread running through the whole project. They mark occasions, fill gaps between books, and sometimes arrive simply because a particular poem feels right on a particular day. They are the constant alongside the changing landscape of longer works.
This collection gathers all the poetry and short readings together in one place — the recordings that sit alongside the novels, from the very first days of reading in lockdown through to the present.
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