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Actors including James Franco, Ruth Wilson, Gabriel Byrne, Maxine Peake, Jeremy Irons, Kelly Macdonald and Michael Sheen read a series of 20 original poems on the theme of climate change, curated by UK poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy. 


Tamsin Greig reads ‘A Language of Change’ by David Sergeant

Ruth Wilson reads ‘Vertigo’ by Alice Oswald

Ruth Wilson reads ‘Silent Sea’ by Rachel Boast

Actors including James Franco, Ruth Wilson, Gabriel Byrne, Maxine Peake, Jeremy Irons, Kelly Macdonald and Michael Sheen read a series of 20 original poems on the theme of climate change, curated by UK poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy. 

Michael Sheen reads 'Scratching for Metaphor in the Somerset Coalfields' by Sean Borodale

Maxine Peake reads ‘Doggerland’ by Jo Bell

Maxine Peake reads ‘A Mancunian Taxi-driver Foresees His Death’ by Michael Symmons Roberts

Kelly Macdonald reads ‘Extinction’ by Jackie Kay

Jeremy Irons reads ‘Turbines in January’ by Colette Bryce

Jeremy Irons reads ‘Storm’ by Michael Longley

James Franco reads ‘Still Life with Sea Pinks and High Tide’ by Maura Dooley

James Franco reads ‘I was Born into a World’ by James Franco

James Franco reads ‘Causeway’ by Matthew Hollis

Iwan Rheon reads ‘Cantre’r Gwaelod’ by Gillian Clarke

Iain Glen reads ‘Nostalgia’ by Don Paterson

Iain Glen reads ‘California Dreaming’ by Lachlan McKinnon

Gabriel Byrne reads ‘Zoological Positivism Blues’ by Paul Muldoon

Gabriel Byrne reads ‘The Solace of Artemis’ by Paula Meehan

Actors including James Franco, Ruth Wilson, Gabriel Byrne, Maxine Peake, Jeremy Irons, Kelly Macdonald and Michael Sheen read a series of 20 original poems on the theme of climate change, curated by UK poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy.

Kelly Macdonald reads 'X' by Imtiaz Dharker

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