This is Episode 14 of Poems to Live Well By.

Today's poem is "Postscript" by Seamus Heaney. It's a poem about the startling beauty of the natural world, a moment caught in time on the Atlantic coast of Ireland, and also about the challenge of the poet, the artist, the musician to try to capture it.

You can read the poem here. 

You are also encouraged to listen to the poet himself read Postscript here.

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This is Episode 13 of Poems to Live Well By.

Today's poem is "Hope is the thing with feathers" by Emily Dickinson, a poem about that most precious of emotions, one we always need, and one that might be in short supply for many people around the world after three challenging years.

Happy New Year, and thanks for listening.

You can read the poem here.

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This is Episode 12 of Poems to Live Well By.

Today's poem is "Palm Leaves" by Charles Bukowski, a poem about a New Year's Eve in 1973 as experienced from the darkness of the poet's bedroom in Los Angeles.

You can read the poem here.

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This is Episode 11 of Poems to Live Well By.

Today's poem is "Wait" by Galway Kinnell, a poem about life and death and the choice between the two.

You can read the poem here.

And you can also hear the poet talk about and read the poem at this Soundcloud link.

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This is Episode 10 of Poems to Live Well By.

Today's reading is of "Advent" by Patrick Kavanagh.

You can read the poem, and a short essay in exploration of its themes, on The Guardian website here.

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Episode 9 of Poems to Live Well By.

Today's reading is of "Snow Fairy" by Claude McKay.

You can read "Snow Fairy" here.

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Episode 8 of Poems to Live Well By.

Today's reading is of a great Christmas poem, "Journey of the Magi", by TS Eliot.

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Episode 7 of Poems to Live Well By.

Today's poem is "Sometimes" by David Whyte.

If you'd like to hear the poet himself read the poem, in his own unmistakable and gorgeous way, please check out this Soundcloud page.

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Episode 6 of Poems to Live Well By.

Today's poem is "The People of the Other Village", by Thomas Lux.

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This is Episode 5 of Poems to Live Well By.

Today's poem is "Happiness" by Raymond Carver, about a fleeting moment of beauty and peace on an otherwise routine morning.

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