Hope or Cope - Prijzen

Selected Poems

Listen to what they did.Don’t listen to what they said.What was written in bloodHas been set up in lead.—from “Blood and Lead” The leading poet of his generation, James Fenton has over the course of h...

Poems and Prose Poems

I started to translate Mallarme's poems because I wasn't content with the English versions I could find. In translation, poets who preceded and followed Mallarme are accessible to us. Baudelaire is ac...

Dylan Thomas Reading His Poetry

Because Dylan Thomas often wrote as much for the sound of his poetry as for its meaning, he was extraordinarily well-suited to the task of interpreting his own works on audio, the more so for his unfo...

Walking the Sunken Boards