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The Married Life
Listen now (4 mins) | Every family is unhappy in its own way, and the same could be said about marriages.
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Space Dome
Listen now (3 mins) | A Poem read by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole
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2:58
Rags of Time
Listen now (3 mins) | All things succumb, in the end. And on this we meditate.
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3:16
The King
Listen now (7 mins) | King of the bathtub.
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7:11
Astro Zombies (1968)
Listen now (3 mins) | A classic movie.
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3:08
Scenes From A War
Listen now (4 mins) | Images from a war that hit where it hurts. Read by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole, from the Poems For Ocean collection.
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3:40
Hymn to Prose
Listen now (3 mins) | A hymn to the literature of our time, for better or worse.
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2:42
Moral Clarity
Listen now (3 mins) | A pseudo-sonnet meditation on time’s decay, and love’s possible opposition. From the Poems For Ocean collection, read by Cosmic…
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3:10
My Boys
Listen now (9 mins) | A longer poem about an unconventional squid-like family, originating in the South Seas. Read by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole.
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8:50
The Wicked Tory
Listen now (3 mins) | Do old Tories ever die?
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2:46
One Among Many
Listen now (3 mins) | Exclusion is a type of alienation.
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3:25
Grave Goods
Listen now (3 mins) | To the grave all things come, but what is good about it? A poem read by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole.
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