Read By: Alice Oswald

<p><em>Alice Oswald on her selection:</em></p> <p>John Clare's <em>Northborough Sonnets</em> (written between 1832 and 1837) are designed as astonishments rather than thoughts... Fourteen lines, ordered into separable couplets, each couplet containing a different moment - these poems are like portable fresh air and I have been reading them every day since moving to the city.</p> <p><a href= "https://bookshop.org/books/northborough-sonnets-9781857541984/9781857541984"> <em>Northborough Sonnets</em></a> at Bookshop.org</p> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Music: "Shift of Currents" by Blue Dot Sessions // CC BY-NC 2.0</span></p>