Kevin Young
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1,056 appearances
8 recordings
4 series
first heard Feb 2026
last heard 26 Aug
Kevin Young’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Um I love all the sounds, and of course it's a sonnet, so we have this small song, little song as a sonnet means.
But I was really struck by the kind of internal rhymes, the ways at the ends of the lines you have these almost uh moments of of coupleting, dead often read, or speak the spakes, who wed, who bred.
those little moments at the end which I feel like do something to the poem that you don't always see.
I'm I'm curious how you see the sonnet form working in this poem.
Exactly.
My grandmother quilted, uh my great grandmother uh unfortunately a dog ate a lot of those quilts.
Um but you know, I I think of it a lot in terms of exactly what you're saying.
They're witnessing and making out of often loss, certainly things otherwise thought left behind into something beautiful.
Uh and do you think grief
Works the same way?
I think that there's something really powerful though about that rhyme that you really mi brought home for us, sewing machine ermidine.
You know, who would a guessed you would've got from there to there?
Um but I think there's that other m moment
further down where it says, smudged with mistakes or tears.
But i I almost read it the first time as tears.
Tears, right.
And and this idea her fingers left a mounting watchfulness I find hard to bear, which also kind of
makes us think it might be terrorist, but instead I think you're right, it's mistakes or tears.
It's both.
How do you read that?
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