This was the Weekly Poem for 20 May 2006. We stretched our poetry-reading muscles with five versions of this much longer selection than usual (some 96 lines), in which D.H. Lawrence evokes a gritty yet sensitive picture of urban poverty before the First World War. (Summary by LauraFox)
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Chapters
- Chapter 1
Embankment at Night, before the War: Outcasts - Read by AC
05:37 - Chapter 2
Embankment at Night, before the War: Outcasts - Read by KZ
06:03 - Chapter 3
Embankment at Night, before the War: Outcasts - Read by LF
05:18 - Chapter 4
Embankment at Night, before the War: Outcasts - Read by MC
04:12 - Chapter 5
Embankment at Night, before the War: Outcasts - Read by PY
05:18