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Armistice Day Poems

The Handshake, by Simon Armitage

Duration: 2 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LWLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FM

Simon Armitage reads his poem, The Handshake. One of ten poems for Armistice day. All our poems are taken from Armistice: A Laureate's Choice of Poems of War and Peace edited by Carol Ann Duffy and published by Faber & Faber in the UK. Show less

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