Michael Caines looks back to Douglas Oliver's long poem The Infant and the Pearl, first published in 1985 – a poetic vision of the contemporary political scene, among other things, cast in the mould of a medieval dream poem.Find out more: www.the-tls.com

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We discuss a poem by J.H. Prynne called To Pollen, from 2006, which conducts its own examination of the uses and misuses of images and stories of suffering.Read by Robert Potts.Find out more: www.the-tls.co.uk

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“August for the people and their favourite islands”, said W.H. Auden in 1935, with the Isle of Wight in mind. Now people’s favourite islands are more likely to be Majorca or Mykonos, but the lure of the seaside remains. Alan Jenkins reads a selection of holiday poems from the past eighty years.Find out more: www.the-tls.co.uk

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David Horspool and Lucy Dallas take an in-depth look at the world of cycling literature. Find out more: www.the-tls.co.uk

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In the latest episode of TLS Voices, Michael Caines and Mika Ross-Southall look at how tennis has inspired writers over the centuries.Find out more: www.the-tls.co.uk

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In the latest episode of TLS Voices, Mika Ross-Southall and Michael Caines consider Shakespeare's collaborator John Fletcher – a major English dramatist whose work, paradoxically, is largely neglected today.

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In the latest episode of TLS Voices, Michael Caines, Natalie Ferris and Mika Ross-Southall explore the experimental work of Christine Brooke-Rose.

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In the latest episode of TLS Voices, Adrian Tahourdin goes to Waterloo.Find out more: www.the-tls.co.uk

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In the latest episode of TLS Voices, Michael Caines and Roz Dineen celebrate a selection of Byron's Letters and Journals.Find out more: www.the-tls.co.uk

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200 years since his birth, we discuss the life and work of Anthony Trollope. Find out more: www.the-tls.co.uk

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100 years since its publication, Hermione Lee discusses The Voyage Out by Virginia Woolf.In discussion with Thea Lenarduzzi from the TLS.Find out more: www.the-tls.co.uk

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Ruth Scurr talks about her unconventional approach to writing a biography of John Aubrey, the seventeenth-century biographer most famous for Brief Lives.In discussion with Mika Ross-Southall from the TLS.Find out more: www.the-tls.co.uk

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Michael Caines reads a selection of verses by the seventeenth-century poet Robert Herrick, as well as a remarkable and little-known elegy by the diarist John Evelyn.Find out more: www.the-tls.co.uk

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Alan Jenkins reads a selection of Ariel poems by, among others, Thomas Hardy, Walter de la Mare and T. S. Eliot, from Faber's Christmas pamphlet seriesFind out more: www.the-tls.co.uk

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Welcome to TLS Voices Deputy Editor Alan Jenkins considers the work of T. E. Hulme.Find out more: www.the-tls.co.uk

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TLS VoicesMichael Caines considers the work of the war poet Ivor Gurney, and reads a selection from his work, including the previously unpublished poems "The Women at Work" and "The Vow of Life".Find out more: www.the-tls.co.uk

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The Times Literary Supplement - an occasional series of readings.The TLS turns to the dark side, finding stories within stories, eyes in the dark, guilty consciences and beasts in the woods – tales from M. R. James, Edith Wharton and Saki, read and introduced by Michael Caines, Mika Ross-Southall and Lucy Dallas.3 of 3Find out more: www.the-tls.co.uk

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The Times Literary Supplement - an occasional series of readings.The TLS turns to the dark side, finding stories within stories, eyes in the dark, guilty consciences and beasts in the woods – tales from M. R. James, Edith Wharton and Saki, read and introduced by Michael Caines, Mika Ross-Southall and Lucy Dallas.2 of 3Find out more: www.the-tls.co.uk

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The Times Literary Supplement - an occasional series of readings.The TLS turns to the dark side, finding stories within stories, eyes in the dark, guilty consciences and beasts in the woods – tales from M. R. James, Edith Wharton and Saki, read and introduced by Michael Caines, Mika Ross-Southall and Lucy Dallas.1 of 3Find out more: www.the-tls.co.uk

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The Times Literary Supplement - an occasional series of readings.Poet, novelist and screenwriter Laurie Lee is discussed with further contribution from fellow writer, Ronald Blythe.Introduced by Michael Caines and Rozalind Dineen from The TLS.Find out more: www.the-tls.co.uk

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