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. 

Read and listen to all the poems in this series:
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Celebrities read climate change poems

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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. 

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

James Franco reads ‘Causeway’ by Matthew Hollis

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

Gabriel Byrne reads ‘Late Sentinels’ by Peter Fallon

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

"Who amongst us is able to number the end of grasses..." Paula Meehan read at Concordia on October 1st, 2015.

Paula Meehan reads "Death of a Field"

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Paula Meehan

Read by Frances Uku
'Seed' by Paula Meehan
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The first warm day of spring 
and I step out into the garden from the gloom
of a house where hope had died
 to tally the storm damage, to seek what may
have survived. And finding some forgotten
lupins I’d sown from seed last autumn
holding in their fingers a raindrop each 
like a peace offering, or a promise,
 I am suddenly grateful and would
 offer a prayer if I believed in God. 
But not believing, I bless the power of seed,
its casual, useful persistence, 
and bless the power of sun,
 its conspiracy with the underground, 
and thank my stars the winter’s ended.
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Paula Meehan [b. 1955, Dublin] is an Irish poet and playwright. 

'Meehan has what many poets lack: a sense of humour' 
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Seed by Paula Meehan - read by Frances Uku

Paula Meehan reads her poem "Well" live from the Cúirt International Festival of Literature, Galway, Ireland on Friday, April 26th, 2013.
Source: Arena, RTE Radio 1
Presenter: Sean Rocks

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

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