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The Librarian's Lament by Sally Warrell


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The Librarian’s Lament Copyright © Sally Warrell December 2007

We are the flaming heart Librarians
We love books
We love information

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Poetry Aloud, Benson Blakes, Bury St Edmunds
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Tue, 26/05/2009
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If Every Turban

If Every Turban Copyright © Colin Whyles

If every turban
Housed a turbine
That caught the wind inside a cup

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Poetry Aloud, Benson Blakes, Bury St Edmunds
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Tue, 26/05/2009
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The Point Of No Return

The Point Of No Return Copyright © 2009 Colin Whyles

It is hard to put a fallen apple
Back on the tree
So I ate it

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Poetry Aloud, Benson Blakes, Bury St Edmunds
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Tue, 26/05/2009
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Moving With The Times by James Knox Whittet


4:05 minutes (3.74 MB)

Moving With The Times Copyright © 2009 James Knox Whittet

He sat in the back row of the classroom
drawing the faces of clocks, his blunted
pencil rounding a smudged penny,

Read Where: 
Poetry Aloud, Benson Blakes, Bury St Edmunds
Read When: 
Tue, 26/05/2009
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The Biscuit Barrel by James Knox Whittet


1:26 minutes (1.32 MB)

The Biscuit Barrel Copyright © 2009 James Knox Whittet

It was the only prize you ever won,
that biscuit barrel with the silvered rim,

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Poetry Aloud, Benson Blakes, Bury St Edmunds
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Tue, 26/05/2009
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The 8th Day by Rob Lock


1:18 minutes (1.19 MB)

The 8th Day Copyright © 2009 Rob Lock

They say the serpent was an upright creature
once, lording it in the garden - the cobra’s
dance a relic of this,

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Poetry Aloud, Benson Blakes, Bury St Edmunds
Read When: 
Tue, 26/05/2009
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Two Crows by Rob Lock


1:38 minutes (1.49 MB)

Two Crows Copyright © 2009 Rob Lock

Kings of the silver birches we called them,
first time we saw their fighter formations

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Poetry Aloud, Benson Blakes, Bury St Edmunds
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Tue, 26/05/2009
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Circles Of Fire by James Knox Whittet


2:46 minutes (2.54 MB)

Circles Of Fire Copyright © 2009 James Knox Whittet

They cannot conceive how it is possible for any mortal to express the conceptions of his mind in such black characters upon white paper: Martin, Martin, 'A Late Voyage To St. Kilda'. (1698)

You brought the written word
to those islands where voices,

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Poetry Aloud, Benson Blakes, Bury St Edmunds
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Tue, 26/05/2009
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Philosophy by Colin Whyles


3:56 minutes (3.61 MB)

Philosophy Copyright © 2005 colin whyles

You cleared the shelves of Philosophy
And burned them in a fire

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Poetry Aloud, Benson Blakes, Bury St Edmunds
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Tue, 26/05/2009
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Response To Rothko by Sally Warrell


0:55 minutes (868.21 KB)

Response to Rothko Copyright © Sally Warrell February 2009

Standing stones or
Prison windows
The darkening blood

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Poetry Aloud, Benson Blakes, Bury St Edmunds
Read When: 
Tue, 26/05/2009
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