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Florence Pugh lends voice to recording of Simon Armitage lockdown poem

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Florence Pugh has lent her voice to a Simon Armitage poem set to music in aid of domestic violence charity Refuge. The Midsommar star, who was recently nominated for an Oscar for her turn as Amy March in Greta Gerwig’s version of Little Women, joins band LYR, made up of Poet Laureate Armitage, Richard Walters and Patrick J Pearson, for a recording of his recent poem Lockdown.

Recorded remotely at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, it is the first time Pugh has contributed both spoken word and vocals to a song.

The poem, which was written in response to the coronavirus restrictions, moves from the outbreak of bubonic plague in Eyam, Derbyshire, in the 17th century – when a bale of cloth sent from London inadvertently brought fleas

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