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Celebrity Actors Reading Poetry

It is often a discussion around our house: poetry as performance vs. poetry as enactment. Actors perform a poem in place of the reader enacting it for themselves. A bit like the difference between watching tennis and playing tennis.​ Both are moving and amazing. This is a fantastic collection: Speak Celebrity. It's an ongoing project, so I am definitely subscribing to see what new gems there are to be enjoyed.

My Dream” by Christina Rossetti

Read by Helena Bonham Carter

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Love’s Philosophy” by Percy Bysshe Shelley 

Read by Keira Knightley

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Like This” by Rumi

Read by Tilda Swinton

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The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe

Read by Christopher Walken

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​“To a Stranger” by Walt Whitman

Read by Kenneth Branagh

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​“Daffodils” by William Wordsworth

Read by Jeremy Irons

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I Like For You To Be Still” by Pablo Neruda

Read by Glenn Close

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In Vain” by Emily Dickinson

Read by Meryl Streep

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Sonnet 150” by William Shakespeare

Read by Al Pacino

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[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]” by e.e. cummings

Read by Heath Ledger

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