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Five Poems for 50 Years

BBC Radio 3
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A week of specially commissioned poems from five of the best voices in poetry today.
4: The Knowing by Sharon Olds.
Sharon Olds is one of the finest poets in the USA today, and her sequence of poems is both epic and domestic, recalling her life from her childhood - with a terrifying, abusive father - to her own marriage and children. Repeat

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Sharon Olds.
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Sharon Olds
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