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Afternoon Reading: What I Learned from the Metaphysical Poets

Afternoon Reading: What I Learned from the Metaphysical Poets: Episode 4: The Tiny and the Light

The Tiny and the Light

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Episode 4: The Tiny and the Light

What I Learned from the Metaphysical Poets

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By Ruth Thomas. Anna procrastinates by playing with her daughter's doll's house.

By Ruth Thomas. Overwhelmed by the upheaval of moving house, Anna procrastinates by playing with her daughter's doll's house. Read by Cara Kelly.

By Ruth Thomas.

A funny and profound story on the nature of transience and permanence, tonight's story, by the acclaimed poet and novelist Ruth Thomas, takes its inspiration from John Donne's poem "The Blossom". 

A week before moving house, Anna finds distraction from packing by arranging and rearranging the furniture in her daughter's doll's house: "procrastination in miniature".

Reader: Cara Kelly
Produced by Kirsteen Cameron.

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Short stories inspired by the poetry of John Donne, George Herbert and Andrew Marvell

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