Poetry for Every Day of the Year: National Theatre Talks

Join us for an hour of poetry dedicated to the people of Ukraine, read by actors on stage at the National Theatre. Allie Esiri was joined by Asa Butterfield, Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù, Kate Fleetwood, Tom Hiddleston, Dária Plahtíy and Helena Bonham Carter. Chris Riddell live drew the evening.

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This event was performed on the Olivier stage, National Theatre, London on Friday 17 March 2023.
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2:13 Lift Every Voice and Sing (James Weldon Johnson) 
4:57 Rain (Don Paterson) 
6:44 Little Gidding (T S Eliot) 
10:02 Words, Wide Night (Carol Ann Duffy) 
11:31 Love After Love (Derek Walcott) 
13:28 Coupling (Fleur Adcock) 
14:17 Variation on a Lennon and McCartney Song (Wendy Cope) 
15:15 He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven (W B Yeats) 
16:23 On being asked for a War Poem (W B Yeats) 
17:22 Atlantis--a Lost Sonnet (Eavan Boland) 
19:00 I See You Dancing, Father (Brendan Kennelly) 
20:36 Michael Finnegan (Anon) 
22:58 Old Mother Goose (Anon) 
25:44 Three Wise Men of Gotham (Anon) 
26:22 Today I Saw a Little Worm (Spike Milligan) 
26:36 The Tickle Rhyme (Ian Serraillier) 
26:48 Roses are red (Anon) 
27:02 A peanut sat on a railroad track (Anon) 
27:16 Soldier, Soldier (Anon) 
29:28 Funeral Blues (W H Auden) 
31:52 June, 1915 (Charlotte Mew) 
33:10 To My Brother (Vera Brittain) 
34:44 Requiem for the Croppies (Seamus Heaney) 
36:28 At least now, my friend says (Serhiy Zhadan) 
38:54 Sun, terrace, lots of green (Serhiy Zhadan) 
40:44 The city is no more (Iryna Shuvalova) 
43:20 From The Book of Sir Thomas More (William Shakespeare) 
46:41 Home (Warsan Shire) 
49:11 Refugees (Brian Bilston) 
51:55 Small Kindnesses (Danusha Laméris) 
55:45 Extract from The Caucasus (Taras Shevchenko)

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