00:49

Lesley Reads: Treetop Fairy (100 words on a wife's extra-special, heartfelt Christmas wish)

04:49

Lesley Reads: Christmas with Emily (just a little glimpse into a world of Christmas crazymaking)

01:08

Lesley Reads: I'm the Keeper of a Cheetah (a 5-minute-made poem that's flawed, but I like it)

01:51

Lesley Reads: Trials of Trudie (flash fiction about a difficult time in anyone's life)

00:26

Lesley Reads: Last Day (in a hospice, by a bedside, with a loved one, at the very end. Micro poem)

02:33

Lesley Reads: Electric Dreams (a poem about it being one of those terrible domestic disaster days)

03:05

Lesley Reads: Over it, Portia (a bit of a monologue rant against a very flawed posh woman)

01:50

Lesley Reads: Fetch Him Home (a sad poem about leaving a baby and the struggle with responsibility)

01:03

Lesley Reads: Panic Attack ( I don't want to do it, I don't want to do it, stop me having to do it!)

03:15

Lesley Reads: Niggled (a woman of a certain age and everything going wrong - a tiny thought-story)

02:02

Lesley Reads: "Charge of the Light Brigade" by Alfred Lord Tennyson

00:56

Lesley Reads: I Was Such an Artist (100 words on the loss of identity that comes with age)

02:35

Lesley Reads: Prelestial Celestial (trapped in technology, thought-story)

04:05

Lesley Reads: Zoom Saturday Radio Show (a story of a real-ish event - surely it wasn't a real show?)

00:52

Lesley Reads: Shambles (100 word story. Do clothes make the man? Does the man wear guilty clothes?)

00:56

Lesley Reads: Web Search (aa 100 word story that isn't what it seems. Beautiful. Haunting. Scary)

02:05

Lesley Reads: Katherine Paints (short/flash story about an artist & her particularly horrible life)

06:04

Lesley Reads: Dessert Garden (is this a place where sweet-tooth dreams come true? It might be!)

00:51

Lesley Reads: I Know Where I'm Going (100 word story of holiday preparation ponderings)

00:43

Lesley Reads: Confess (a 100 word 'thing', a really challenging time in life and difficult decision)

01:59

Lesley Reads: "Poppies" by Jane Weir

01:03

Lesley Reads: "Neutral Tones" by Thomas Hardy

01:19

Lesley Reads: "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas

06:02

Lesley Reads: Gargoyles Flat (a holiday with your best friend, but things aren't what they seem)

06:09

Lesley Reads: Everything and Nothing (friends and an obsessively unusual desire to write poetry)

03:14

Lesley Reads: "My Last Duchess" by Robert Browning

03:40

Lesley Reads: Pebbledashed (a move to the country, and thoughts on the houses and gardens. Lovely)

01:02

Lesley Reads: "Mother, Any Distance Greater Than A Single Span" by Simon Armitage

10:59

Lesley Reads: Doctor Proctor (a short story, a strange doctor, nurse with dreams and four patients)

00:25

Lesley Reads: "Walking Away" by Daniel Day-Lewis

00:54

Lesley Reads: "London" by William Blake

00:45

Lesley Reads: Philosophy Professor (Short poem with LOADS of PRETENTIOUS, incomprehensible words!)

00:58

Lesley Reads: Tank Left Open (a poem about one of the worst things - when your tiny pets escape)

01:13

Lesley Reads: "Storm on the Island" by Seamus Heaney

04:24

Lesley Reads: Otto from the Pickled Herring Stall (sweet story about an old man's life and friends)

01:00

Lesley Reads: Cockroach Metamorphosis (100 words on how much I love my Hissers and Franz Kafka!)

00:39

Lesley Reads: 4:45am (a menopause-related poem that will definitely resonate with some of you!)

03:06

Lesley Reads: The Last Thing (Unexpected flash fiction about drunken thievery in the Brecon Beacons)

01:35

Lesley Reads: "War Photographer" by Carol Ann Duffy

03:24

Lesley Reads: Bright Lights (a flash/short story about some pretty special illuminated public art)

14:55

Lesley Reads: In for a Penny (ideological differences and can they be overcome for relationship?)

01:32

Lesley Reads: "Remains" by Simon Armitage

00:57

Lesley Reads: "Letters From Yorkshire" by Maura Dooley

01:25

Lesley Reads: "Stop All The Clocks" by WH Auden

00:58

Lesley Reads: Hot as a Furnace (perimenopausal over-heated frustrating madness in a poem, of sorts)

02:30

Lesley Reads: "Prelude" (an extract) by William Wordsworth

00:33

Lesley Reads: Kids are Doing Art Today (a little and heartfelt poem that parents will resonate with)

01:08

Lesley Reads: "Follower" by Seamus Heaney

01:42

Lesley Reads: "Tissue" by Imtiaz Dharker

02:17

Lesley Reads: "The Farmer's Bride" by Charlotte Brew

01:42

Lesley Reads: "The Emigree" by Carol Rumers

01:19

Lesley Reads "Eden Rock" by Charles Causley

00:55

Lesley Reads: That Terrible Woman (a 100 word observation about a bullying mother at a campsite)

01:30

Lesley Reads: Snow (a poem written on maybe the final day of 2023's Spring snow. Snowy memories)

00:44

Lesley Reads: Maltese Lace (100 words on a chance encounter with a holiday island lace seller)

01:30

Lesley Reads: "Before You Were Mine" by Carol Ann Duffy

01:08

Lesley Reads: Uppity (a poem of sorts about a rather dysfunctional wife, husband and relationship)

00:39

Lesley Reads: Work Hard Play Hard (irreverent poem of sorts. Hmmmm, yeah I wish I was a real poet!

01:28

Lesley Reads: "Bayonet Charge" by Ted Hughes

01:02

Lesley Reads: "Ozymandias" by Percy Bysshe Shelley