Poems That Make Grown Men Cry
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Poems That Make Grown Men Cry
Grown men aren't supposed to cry. Anthony Holden and Ben Holden introduce a selection of poems that haunt a host of eminent men, from their new anthology in association with Amnesty International; they explain why, in words as moving as the poems themselves. With Melvyn Bragg, Richard Dawkins, Richa...
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End note by Kate Allen
Anthony Holden and Ben Holden introduce a selection of poems that haunt a host of eminent men, from their new anthology in association with Amnesty In...
Richard Eyre - Sandra's Mobile by Douglas Dunn
Anthony Holden and Ben Holden introduce a selection of poems that haunt a host of eminent men, from their new anthology in association with Amnesty In...
Ian McEwan - An Exequy by Peter Porter
Anthony Holden and Ben Holden introduce a selection of poems that haunt a host of eminent men, from their new anthology in association with Amnesty In...
Mike Leigh - eulogy to a hell of a dame by Charles Bukowski
Anthony Holden and Ben Holden introduce a selection of poems that haunt a host of eminent men, from their new anthology in association with Amnesty In...
Simon McBurney: and our faces, my heart, brief as photos by John Berger
Anthony Holden and Ben Holden introduce a selection of poems that haunt a host of eminent men, from their new anthology in association with Amnesty In...
Melvyn Bragg: Sonnet XXX
Anthony Holden and Ben Holden introduce a selection of poems that haunt a host of eminent men, from their new anthology in association with Amnesty In...
Richard Dawkins: Last Poems: XL by A. E. Housman
Anthony Holden and Ben Holden introduce a selection of poems that haunt a host of eminent men, from their new anthology in association with Amnesty In...
Simon Schama: Lullaby by W. H. Auden
Anthony Holden and Ben Holden introduce a selection of poems that haunt a host of eminent men, from their new anthology in association with Amnesty In...
Ben Okri: Elegy for Alto by Christopher Okigo
Anthony Holden and Ben Holden introduce a selection of poems that haunt a host of eminent men, from their new anthology in association with Amnesty In...
Simon Russell Beale: I see a girl draffed by the wrist by Philip Larkin
Anthony Holden and Ben Holden introduce a selection of poems that haunt a host of eminent men, from their new anthology in association with Amnesty In...
Introduction by Anthony and Ben Holden
Anthony Holden and Ben Holden introduce a selection of poems that haunt a host of eminent men, from their new anthology in association with Amnesty In...