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1

Touching Time: Doireann Ní Ghríofa x The Victorian Hand Project

2

Sample: Inherit The Truth by Anita Lasker-Wallfisch

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Audio Trailer: Inherit The Truth by Anita Lasker-Wallfisch

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Voice Memo 9 - Rat Park (pg 120-121)

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Voice Memo 47 - Bystander Effect (pg 210-211)

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Voice Memo 23 - Cavepeople (pg 163-164)

7

Anna Burns | Milkman

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Charlotte Rampling & Lambert Wilson read Paris by Hope Mirrlees

9

New Cemetery: Audiobook Extract

10

John & Paul: Audiobook Extract

11

Small Things Like These: Audiobook Extract

12

Outline: Audiobook Extract

13

Demon Copperhead: Audiobook Extract

14

Klara and the Sun: Audiobook Extract

15

Listen to Simon Armitage reading 'Nest Box' from Dwell

16

The Unnamable (Sound Art)

17

My Word: from the Spiritual Diary of Dr Dee by Camille Ralphs

18

Yobbo - From - Look - We - Have - Coming - To - Dover - Audio - 2-mins

19

The - Bell - Jar - Audio - 2-mins

20

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro - Chapter One Opening

21

Lord of the Flies by William Golding - Audiobook

22

Nestor Kornblum - Overtone Chant

23

Rites of Passage by William Golding – Audio Extract

24

The Waste Land audio extract read by Edoardo Ballerini

25

Black British Mothers Matter by Baroness Doreen Lawrence (read by Debra Michaels)

26

Black British Historians Matter by Lenny Henry and David Olusoga

27

Pincher Martin - Audio Book Extract

28

The Inheritors - Audio Book Extract

29

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath – audiobook extract

30

Mayflies by Andrew O' Hagan Audio Extract

31

Britain Alone Audio Book Extract

32

Excavate! Audio Book Extract

33

Nervous Conditions Audio Book Extract

34

Outline Audio Book Extract

35

Bessie Smith Audio Book Extract

36

Klara and the Sun Audio Book Extract

37

'Public Library, 1988' from Soho by Richard Scott

38

Nicola Upson reads from The Dead Of Winter

39

Amelia Gentleman on The Windrush Betrayal

40

Sam Riviere: Epigram [63]

41

Melissa Harrison's The Stubborn Light of Things

42

Randomly Moving Particles

43

Joe Dunthorne: Worship

44

Ten Days in Harlem by Simon Hall: Prologue

45

Ten Days in Harlem by Simon Hall: The Stage Is Set (1)

46

Ten Days in Harlem by Simon Hall: The Stage Is Set (2)

47

Ten Days in Harlem by Simon Hall: The Stage Is Set (3)

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Ten Days in Harlem by Simon Hall: The Stage Is Set (4)

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Ten Days in Harlem by Simon Hall: The Stage Is Set (5)

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Nicola Upson reads from Sorry For The Dead

51

Matthew Francis: Yellow

52

Mary Jean Chan reads Flèche

53

Julia Copus reads Stories

54

Paris by Hope Mirrlees read by Charlotte Rampling and Lambert Wilson

55

Natalie Diaz reads Manhattan Is A Lenape Word

56

Ilya Kaminsky – We Lived Happily During The War

57

Faber Book of the Week | A Mind To Murder

58

Emily Berry reads Emily Dickinson

59

Faber Book of the Week: This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health by Nathan Filer, part 2

60

Faber Book of the Week: This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health by Nathan Filer, part 1

61

How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons)Read By Barbara Kingsolver

62

Wendy Cope reads The Damage to the Piano

63

Ishion Hutchinson reads Marina by T.S. Eliot

64

The Universe Speaks in Numbers 13: Graham Farmelo interviews Lance Dixon

65

The Universe Speaks in Numbers 12: Graham Farmelo interviews Robbert Dijkgraaf

66

The Universe Speaks in Numbers 11: Graham Farmelo interviews Greg Moore

67

The Universe Speaks in Numbers 10: Graham Farmelo interviews Freeman Dyson

68

The Universe Speaks in Numbers 9: Graham Farmelo interviews Michela Massimi

69

Nathan Filer reads from The Heartland: Finding and Losing Schizophrenia

70

The Universe Speaks in Numbers 8: Graham Farmelo interviews Juan Maldacena

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The Universe Speaks in Numbers 7: Graham Farmelo interviews Roger Penrose

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The Universe Speaks in Numbers 1B: Graham Farmelo interviews Nima Arkani-Hamed (part 2)

73

The Universe Speaks in Numbers 6: Graham Farmelo interviews Michael Green

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The Universe Speaks in Numbers 5: Graham Farmelo interviews Edward Witten

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The Universe Speaks in Numbers 4: Graham Farmelo interviews Val Gibson

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The Universe Speaks in Numbers 3: Graham Farmelo interviews Simon Schaffer

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The Universe Speaks in Numbers 2: Graham Farmelo interviews Michael Atiyah

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The Universe Speaks in Numbers 1: Graham Farmelo interviews Nima Arkani-Hamed (part 1)

79

Lanny by Max Porter (audiobook extract)

80

To Throw Away Unopened by Viv Albertine (audiobook extract)

81

Billy Bragg reads from The Three Dimensions Of Freedom

82

Apple Tree Yard by Louise Doughty (audiobook extract)

83

Milkman by Anna Burns (audiobook extract)

84

Simon Armitage reads his poem 'Last'

85

Moby reads from his memoir Then It Fell Apart

86

Dinner at David Bowie's (Moby reads from Then It Fell Apart)

87

Moby reads from Then It Fell Apart (audiobook extract)

88

Rachael Allen reads 'Prawns of Joe'

89

Rachael Allen reads Monstrous Horses

90

Rachael Allen reads Lunatic Urbaine

91

Faber Members Presents: Literature & Psychoanalysis - Josh Cohen on Conversations with Friends

92

Faber Members Presents: Mark Wigglesworth & Nicholas Hytner in Conversation

93

Rachael Allen reads Kingdomland

94

Fielder by Zaffar Kunial

95

Prayer by Zaffar Kunial

96

The Word by Zaffar Kunial

97

Self Portrait as Bottom by Zaffar Kunial

98

Michael Diamond reads an exclusive extract from Beastie Boys Book

99

Beastie Boys Book, audiobook extract – Wild Card (An Introduction) by Adam Horovitz

100

Book To Book episode 3 with Sue Prideaux – the Faber podcast

101

Book To Book episode 2 with William Atkins – the Faber podcast

102

Book To Book episode 1 with Stephen Moss – the Faber Podcast

103

The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro - Extract

104

Jeremy Irons reading T. S. Eliot's 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' - Clip

105

Kismet by Luke Tredget - Extract

106

Untitled read by Sophie Collins

107

Who Is Mary Sue? read by Sophie Collins

108

Hannah Sullivan reading 'You, Very Young in New York'

109

Collusion by Luke Harding – sample chapter on the Trump/Russia scandal

110

1,423 QI Facts to Bowl You Over radio ad

111

Book of the Week: Collusion by Luke Harding

112

Moved by the Beauty Of Trees

113

The Lords and Commons Of Summer

114

After The Hurricane read by Ishion Hutchinson

115

Faber Poetry Podcast – Daljit Nagra

116

David Keenan Takeover Part 2

117

David Keenan Takeover Part 1

118

Winter by Emily Berry

119

Procession by Emily Berry

120

Everything Bad is Permanent by Emily Berry

121

Paul Auster reads from 4321

122

01 Steel Teeth "Maggie's Den" from Callisto (ST-13)

123

03 Chinese Moon "Thrumming" from Hitch In Time/Thrumming/Phasing (ST-101)

124

02 Kazoo Icing Compass "Austerity 1" from The New Austerity (ST-69)

125

Well Love - Alan Bennett reads from Keeping On Keeping On

126

Conscientious Diarist - Alan Bennett reads from Keeping On Keeping On

127

Names Bleeped - Alan Bennett reads from Keeping On Keeping On

128

Aren't You Famous - Alan Bennett reads from Keeping On Keeping On

129

Chatting with Mam - Alan Bennett reads from Keeping On Keeping On

130

Jenny Agutter reads from P. D. James' The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories

131

Michael Dickman reads "Dead Brother Superhero"

132

Matthew Dickman reads "Satellite"

133

Michael Dickman reads "Killing Flies"

134

Matthew Dickman reads "Cloud"

135

Faber Poetry Podcast: Michael and Matthew Dickman

136

Michael Dickman reads "The New Green"

137

Matthew Dickman reads "My Brother's Grave"

138

Frederick Seidel reads "Robespierre"

139

Frederick Seidel reads "France Now"

140

PLASH, inspired by Melissa Harrison's book RAIN

141

Max Porter reads from Grief is the Thing with Feathers

142

Melissa Harrison on walking in the rain

143

Faber Poetry Podcast: Lavinia Greenlaw

144

Edward Dusinberre: Beethoven for a Later Age

145

Historian Simon Hall on 1956: the World in Revolt

146

Faber New Poets 2014 - Will Burns reads Transmission

147

Faber New Poets 2014 - Will Burns reads In the Bar at the Golden Heart Hotel

148

Faber New Poets 2014 - Declan Ryan reads Ethiopia Shall Stretch Forth Her Hands

149

Faber New Poets 2014 - Declan Ryan reads When We Were Kings

150

Faber New Poets 2014 - Will Burns reads Guy

151

James Shapiro on 1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear

152

Faber Podcast - Arcadia by Iain Pears

153

Wellington's Waterloo Dispatch read by Hugh Grant

154

David Harsent | Tinnitus: August, sun beating the rooftops

155

David Harsent | Tinnitus: May, low skies and thunder

156

David Harsent | Tinnitus: January, thin rain becoming ice

157

David Harsent | Armistice

158

David Harsent | M. A. D. 1971 (Rat Run)

159

David Harsent | Fire: a song for Mistress Askew

160

Peter Carey: Amnesia

161

Historian Jenny Uglow on Britain during the Napoleonic Wars

162

Helen Castor: Joan of Arc

163

David Harsent: Fire Songs (Part 2)

164

David Harsent: Fire Songs (Part 1)

165

Terry Coleman: The Old Vic

166

'The Trees' by Philip Larkin, read by Alan Bennett

167

'To an Athlete Dying Young' by A. E. Housman, read by Alan Bennett

168

'Proud Songsters' by Thomas Hardy, read by Alan Bennett

169

Dan Jones: The Hollow Crown

170

John Lanchester: How to Speak Money

171

Eimear McBride reads from A Girl Is A Half-formed Thing

172

Gerard Lyons: The Consolations of Economics

173

Roderick Bailey: Target: Italy

174

Akhil Sharma: Family Life

175

Through It All I've Always Laughed: The Early Years of Count Arthur Strong!

176

Maria McCann: Ace, King, Knave

177

John Bridcut on Benjamin Britten (Part 2)

178

John Bridcut on Benjamin Britten (Part 1)

179

Colin Matthews on Benjamin Britten

180

Ronald Blythe: The Time by the Sea

181

Ronald Blythe Reads an Extract from The Time by the Sea

182

Benjamin Britten: The Curlew (Bonus Track)

183

Benjamin Britten: Desert Island Discs

184

Benjamin Britten: His Musical Legacy

185

Graham Farmelo: Churchill's Bomb

186

Benjamin Britten: Britten and Boys

187

Benjamin Britten: A Documented Life

188

Benjamin Britten: First Encounters

189

Christopher Reid: Six Bad Poets

190

Christopher Reid: A Career in Poetry

191

A Scattering: A Poem by Christopher Reid

192

Michael Blakemore: Stage Blood

193

Liffs: Croom and Fackham

194

Liffs: Berlano, Peakirk, Caterham, Letchlade and Aberdovey

195

Liffs: Martin Hussingtree and Poughkeepsie

196

John Lloyd on Zolling

197

John Lloyd on the story behind writing Afterliff

198

John Lloyd reads from the Meaning of Liff 3

199

John Lloyd reads from the Meaning of Liff 2

200

John Lloyd reads from the Meaning of Liff 1

201

John Lloyd on the background to The Meaning of Liff

202

Tomato Salad

203

The Old Fuel

204

Sweet Arlene

205

Some Fears

206

A Short Guide to Corseting

207

Nothing Sets My Heart Aflame

208

Letter to Husband

209

Emily Berry: Dear Boy

210

Eugen Ruge: In Times of Fading Light

211

In Times of Fading Light by Eugen Ruge (Extract 2 of 2)

212

In Times of Fading Light by Eugen Ruge (Extract 1 of 2)

213

Barbara Kingsolver: Flight Behaviour

214

Flight Behaviour by Barbara Kingsolver (Extract)

215

Marcel Theroux: Strange Bodies

216

Strange Bodies by Marcel Theroux (Extract 2 of 2)

217

Strange Bodies by Marcel Theroux (Extract 1 of 2)

218

Louise Doughty: Apple Tree Yard

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Apple Tree Yard by Louise Doughty (Extract 2 of 2)

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Apple Tree Yard by Louise Doughty (Extract 1 of 2)

221

She Left Me the Gun by Emma Brockes (Extract 2 of 2)

222

She Left Me the Gun by Emma Brockes (Extract 1 of 2)

223

Emma Brockes: She Left Me the Gun

224

Nadeem Aslam reads from The Blind Man's Garden (3 of 3)

225

Nadeem Aslam reads from The Blind Man's Garden (2 of 3)

226

Nadeem Aslam reads from The Blind Man's Garden (1 of 3)

227

Nadeem Aslam: The Blind Man's Garden

228

Alice Oswald Reading at Faber Social

229

Neil McKenna reads from Fanny and Stella (2 of 2)

230

Neil McKenna reads from Fanny and Stella (1 of 2)

231

Neil McKenna: Fanny and Stella

232

David Peace Reads from 'Red or Dead'

233

Francis Spufford: An extract from Red Plenty (3 of 3)

234

Francis Spufford: An extract from Red Plenty (2 of 3)

235

Francis Spufford: An extract from Red Plenty (1 of 3)

236

Orhan Pamuk: Silent House

237

Ronald Frame: Havisham

238

Paul Auster Reads from Winter Journal

239

Paul Auster: Winter Journal

240

Edna O'Brien Reads from Country Girl (Extract 2)

241

Edna O'Brien Reads from Country Girl (Extract 1)

242

Edna O'Brien: Country Girl

243

John Gordon Sinclair reads from Seventy Times Seven (Extract 2)

244

John Gordon Sinclair reads from Seventy Times Seven (Extract 1)

245

John Gordon Sinclair: Seventy Times Seven

246

Jeet Thayil reads from Narcopolis at the Faber Social

247

Francis Spufford: Unapologetic

248

Francis Spufford: An extract from 'Unapologetic'

249

The Harvest Moon by Ted Hughes

250

The Thought-Fox by Ted Hughes

251

Paul Ormerod: Positive Linking

252

Kirsty Gunn: The Big Music

253

1953 | Winged Back by Dannie Abse

254

1964 | Events & Happenings by Roger McGough

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1977 | 1977 (I am quite sure of this) by Imtiaz Dharker

256

1954 | The Royal Visit by Fleur Adcock

257

1957 | On not dying young by Elaine Feinstein

258

1963 | World Events by Ruth Fainlight

259

1974 | 1974 by Vicki Feaver

260

1976 | To a Ladybird by Sarah Maguire

261

1999 | Margaret Kirk née Baxter by Jackie Kay

262

2008 | In the space of that year by Clare Shaw

263

2009 | Home Birth by Sinead Morrissey

264

1994 | Chunnel / Le Tunnel sous la Manche by Patience Agbabi

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1966 | Photograph, Art Student, Female, Working Class by Liz Lochhead

266

Lindsey Hilsum: Sandstorm

267

Lindsey Hilsum Reads from 'Sandstorm' (extract 3)

268

Lindsey Hilsum Reads from 'Sandstorm' (extract 2)

269

Lindsey Hilsum Reads from 'Sandstorm' (extract 1)

270

Elliot Perlman: The Street Sweeper

271

Robin Dunbar: The Science of Love and Betrayal

272

Tobias Jones: Blood on the Altar

273

Philip Oltermann: Keeping Up with the Germans

274

James Palmer: The Death of Mao

275

If You Prefer a Milder Comedian - Stewart Lee: The Podcast

276

Philip Larkin reads The Sunday Sessions (Toads)

277

Philip Larkin reads The Sunday Sessions (1914)

278

Philip Larkin reads The Sunday Sessions (Lines On A Young Ladies Photograph Album)

279

Matthew Sweet: The West End Front

280

Matthew Sweet, Oral History & The West End Front

281

Matthew Sweet, Stella Lonsdale & The West End Front

282

Fiona MacCarthy: The Last Pre-Raphaelite

283

P. D. James: Death Comes to Pemberley

284

Death Comes to Pemberley: An Extract Read by P. D. James

285

Sebastian Barry: On Canaan's Side

286

The Faber Podcast 27 (Part 2): Nicholas Rankin on Ian Fleming's Commandos

287

The Faber Podcast 27 (Part 1): Tim Jeal on Explorers of the Nile

288

Michael Frayn: My Father's Fortune and Other Writing

289

The Faber Podcast 26: Matthew Hollis & Richard T. Kelly

290

Matthew Hollis: Now All Roads Lead to France

291

Richard T. Kelly: The Possessions of Doctor Forrest

292

Steve Sem-Sandberg: The Emperor of Lies

293

The Faber Podcast 25: Jane Harris & Jonathan Glancey

294

Jonathan Glancey: Nagaland

295

Ray Ryan introducing The Good of the Novel panel discussion

296

James Wood on The Good of the Novel

297

Lee Brackstone on The Good of the Novel

298

Frances Wilson on The Good of the Novel

299

Amit Chaudhuri on The Good of the Novel

300

Panel discussion on The Good of the Novel

301

Judy Golding: The Children of Lovers

302

Jane Harris: Gillespie and I

303

The Faber Podcast 24: Lewis Wolpert & Andrew Martin

304

Lewis Wolpert: You're Looking Very Well

305

Andrew Martin: The Somme Stations

306

T.S. Eliot reads The Waste Land (The Burial of the Dead, extract)

307

Ted Hughes reads The Waste Land (A Game of Chess, extract)

308

Viggo Mortensen reads The Waste Land (The Fire Sermon, extract)

309

Barbara Kingsolver: The Lacuna

310

David Peace: Occupied City & The Tokyo Trilogy

311

P. D. James: A Life in Crime

312

Kazuo Ishiguro: On The Remains of the Day and Other Books (Part 2)

313

Kazuo Ishiguro: On Nocturnes and Other Books (Part 1)

314

Junot Diaz: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

315

The Faber Podcast 23: Edna O'Brien & Manju Kapur

316

Manju Kapur: Custody

317

Edna O'Brien: Saints and Sinners

318

Shovel Kings read by Edna O'Brien

319

My Two Mothers read by Edna O'Brien

320

The Faber Podcast 22: Jonathan Watts & David Olusoga

321

Jonathan Watts: When a Billion Chinese Jump

322

David Olusoga: The Kaiser's Holocaust

323

The Faber Podcast 21: Francis Spufford & Norman Lebrecht

324

Francis Spufford: Red Plenty

325

Norman Lebrecht: Why Mahler?

326

The Faber Podcast 20: Louise Doughty & Marek Kohn

327

Louise Doughty: Whatever You Love

328

Marek Kohn: Turned Out Nice

329

The Faber Podcast 19: Andrew O'Hagan & Lucy Worsley

330

Andrew O'Hagan: The Life and Opinions of Maf the Dog

331

Lucy Worsley: Courtiers

332

The Faber Podcast 18: James Shapiro & Maria McCann

333

James Shapiro: Contested Will

334

Maria McCann: The Wilding

335

The Faber Podcast 17: Robin Dunbar & Alex Preston

336

Robin Dunbar: How Many Friends Does One Person Need?

337

Alex Preston: This Bleeding City

338

The Faber Podcast 16: Jonathan Lethem & Peter Carey

339

Jonathan Lethem: Chronic City

340

Peter Carey: Parrot and Olivier in America

341

The Faber Podcast 15: Tobias Jones & Nicola Upson

342

Tobias Jones: The Salati Case

343

Nicola Upson: Angel With Two Faces

344

The Faber Podcast 14: Jenny Uglow & Marcus Chown

345

Jenny Uglow: A Gambling Man

346

Marcus Chown: We Need to Talk About Kelvin

347

The Faber Podcast 13: John Carey & Roland Chambers

348

Roland Chambers: The Last Englishman

349

John Carey: William Golding - The Man Who Wrote Lord of the Flies

350

The Faber Podcast 12: Giles Foden & Sarah Hall

351

Giles Foden: Turbulence

352

Sarah Hall: How to Paint a Dead Man

353

The Faber Podcast 11: Andy Beckett & Adam Creed

354

Andy Beckett: When the Lights Went Out

355

Adam Creed: Suffer the Children

356

The Faber Podcast 10: Petina Gappah & Oliver Balch

357

Petina Gappah: An Elegy for Easterly

358

Oliver Balch: Viva South America!

359

The Faber Podcast 9: Lewis Wolpert & Stav Sherez

360

Lewis Wolpert: How We Live and Why We Die

361

Stav Sherez: The Black Monastery

362

The Faber Podcast 8: Graham Farmelo & Sam Taylor

363

Graham Farmelo: The Strangest Man

364

Sam Taylor: The Island at the End of the World

365

The Faber Podcast 7: Kathleen Burk & Michael Bywater

366

The Faber Podcast 6: Paul Auster & Nadeem Aslam

367

Paul Auster: Man in the Dark

368

Nadeem Aslam: The Wasted Vigil

369

The Faber Podcast 5: James Bradley & Mark Thompson

370

James Bradley: The Resurrectionist

371

Mark Thompson: The White War

372

The Faber Podcast 4: Andrew Sean Greer & Stephen Armstrong

373

Andrew Sean Greer: The Story of a Marriage

374

Stephen Armstrong: War plc

375

The Faber Podcast 3: Sebastian Barry & Stefan Merrill Block

376

Sebastian Barry: The Secret Scripture

377

Stefan Merrill Block: The Story of Forgetting

378

The Faber Podcast 2: Adam Mars-Jones, Frances Wilson & Peter Carey

379

Peter Carey: His Illegal Self

380

Adam Mars-Jones: Pilcrow

381

Frances Wilson: The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth

382

The Faber Podcast 1: Richard T. Kelly, Jenna Bailey & Hanif Kureishi

383

Richard T. Kelly: Crusaders

384

Jenna Bailey: Can Any Mother Help Me?

385

Hanif Kureishi: Something to Tell You

386

Orhan Pamuk: Other Colours

387

David Harsent on Night and Other Poetry

388

Jo Shapcott on Of Mutability and Other Poems

389

Michael Hofmann in Conversation

390

Emma Jones on The Striped World

391

A Motorcycle for a Horse by Willy Vlautin