Poetry Month Podcasts: John Barton's "Le Tombeau de Sylvia Plath"

From the Cormorant Books blog. This is the fifth installment in a series of original posts by Silver Salts author Mark Blagrave.

I used to love reading to my children. It was one of the greatest joys of having them. There were other joys, of course, but I remember them more dimly. I did accents and voices, and the boys always seemed utterly enrapt. It was only later, when, as teenagers, they would pick up Stanley Bagshaw or some other classic and start snidely mimicking my performances, that I wondered whether they listened so intently just so they wouldn’t have to go to bed.