VIDEO: Six Poems in Five Minutes

Sweetman Podcast by Simon Sweetman

Apr 21, 20265:15Arts

I haven’t done a video for a while — so here are six poems from the last year or so, read out by me in a one-take video. I’ll link to the poems as they originally appeared here for those that want to read them instead, o...

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