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Four Seasons: Poetry for the Spring Equinox

To mark the Spring Equinox, Radio 4 broadcast readings of seasonal poetry. You can listen to all the poems here.

In the Fields, by Charlotte Mew, read by Juliet Stevenson

The Trees, by Philip Larkin, read by Alex Jennings

Alice Oswald's A Wood Coming into Leaf, read by the poet

Spring, by Gerard Manley Hopkins, read by Ray Fearon

The Cherry Trees by Edward Thomas, read by Noma Dumezweni

Christopher Marlowe's Come Live with Me, read by Anton Lesser

Lines Written in Early Spring, by William Wordsworth, read by Simon Russell Beale

Louis MacNeice's Nuts in May, read by Bill Paterson

Celebrating spring