I love this. I've been with my husband for (counts) 34 years, and though old bridges break, we have built strong walls that are helping us through a confinement in a two bedroom apartment! We not only cope, but we seem so far to thrive. It's so nice to hear a poem that speaks to that strength.

106 Scaffolding by Seamus Heaney, read by Jessica Regan

Friday 25th September 2020. Day 190 of Pandemic Poems

581 The Old Ships by James Elroy Flecker, read by Prunella Scales

Sunday 27th September 2020. Day 192 of Pandemic Poems

587 The Monument by Elizabeth Bishop, read by Jane Slavin

588 The Death Of Allegory by Billy Collins

Monday 28th September 2020. Day 193 of Pandemic Poems

589 The Life that I Have by Leo Marks

Tuesday 29th September 2020. Day 194 of Pandemic Poems

591 The Famous Tay Whale by William McGonagall, read by Nicholas Ralph

Tuesday 29th September 2020. Day 194 of Pandemic Poems

Illustration by Marguerite Davis, from Tirra Lirra : Rhymes Old and New (1932)

592 Kindness To Animals by Laura E Richards

Wednesday 30th September 2020. Day 195 of Pandemic Poems

596 Den halvfärdiga himlen (The half-finished heaven) by Tomas Tranströmer, read by Michaela Caunter

597 Como quien oye llover (As somebody hears the rain) by Octavio Paz, read by Will Keen

Thursday 1st October September 2020. Day 196 of Pandemic Poems

598 I Have Taught Myself To Live Simply by Anna Akhmatova, read by Tommy Millar and Jane Slavin

Thursday 1st October 2020. Day 196 of Pandemic Poems

Read and reproduced here by kind permission of Johnson and Alcock literary agency

599 Warning by Jenny Joseph, read by Katherine Parkinson

Actor and sometimes director. Searchable list of poems: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CCjGqAU4uz0dwo7X8e3MBnGorHOT0kYeUDYxLwEKeU4/htmlview#gid=0

106 Scaffolding by Seamus Heaney, read by Jessica Regan

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