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EPISODE · Jan 7, 2026 · 5 MIN

The Tow Rows

from The Sounds of Poetry - David Williams · host David Williams

My mother once told me that when she was a child there was a story of the village woken in the night by terrible screams. She said it was a ghost story, and it was called The Tow Rows.I’ve used that memory as the starting point for this poem.A bleak and haunting tale of a ship lost in a gale, the cries that carried ashore, and the silence that answered them, The Tow Rows explores fear, inaction, and the weight of what is left behind when the sea is finished.

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My mother once told me that when she was a child there was a story of the village woken in the night by terrible screams. She said it was a ghost story, and it was called The Tow Rows.I’ve used that memory as the starting point for this poem.A bleak...

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