Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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This video is just for poetry and drama lovers, especially those who read classics. You are special and thanks for being here!

It was not a stellar year for me reading drama so three honourable mentions:
The Belle's Strategem by Hannah Cowley
London Assurance by Dion Boucicault
Alan's Wife by Florence Bell and Elizabeth Robins

But a strong top five books of poetry:
The Home Child by Liz Berry
Poems of Nazim Hikmet translated by Randy Blasing and Mutlu Konuk
In Parenthesis by David Jones
The Iliad by Homer translated by Robert Fagles and Emily Wilson
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer