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The Sunday Poem is published weekly, and strives to include the poet reading their work.
Byron Beynon reads his poem at its conclusion.
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photo via Wallpaper Flare
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You Must Live It
During that electric dawn
when I first heard
a bracelet of notes
which traced a subtle rhythm
within an hourglass of music
and sharpened the silence with sound,
Peggy Lee’s velvet
voice on ‘Is that all there is’
fused in my head,
a memory which swayed
from the radio’s breath,
those mysterious waves
telling me that whatever
life is for
you must live it.
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Listen to Byron Beynon read his poem
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Byron Beynon coordinated Wales’s contribution to the anthology Fifty Strong (Heinemann). His work has been featured in several publications including Agenda, Black Fox Literary Magazine, Wasafiri, Cyphers, The London Magazine, Poetry Wales, English: Journal of the English Association, and the human rights anthology In Protest (University of London and Keats House Poets). Several collections, including The Echoing Coastline (Agenda) and Where Shadows Stir (The Seventh Quarry Press) were launched at the birthplace of Dylan Thomas, Swansea, in February 2023.
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Listen to the 1969 recording of Peggy Lee singing “Is That All There Is?” [Universal Music Group]
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