In this episode, Pete Stones talks with us about the poem that has been a friend to him – 'Old Mary' by Gwendolyn Brooks.
Pete joined The Poetry Exchange at the Birmingham & Midland Institute - one of our first in-person exchanges since the pandemic.
He is in conversation with Poetry Exchange team members, Fiona Bennett and John Prebble.
'Old Mary' is read by Pete Stones and Fiona Bennett.
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Old Mary
by Gwendolyn Brooks
My last defense
Is the present tense.
It little hurts me now to know
I shall not go
Cathedral-hunting in Spain
Nor cherrying in Michigan or Maine.
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