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When it's over, I want to say,

All my life, I was a bride, married to amazement.

I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. That's from

when death comes by the poet Mary Oliver who died quite recently in January 2019. This is great lives. I'm Matthew Paris and my

guest keen to discuss Mary Oliver's life and work is the actor Nia Cusac,

well known to television and stage for roles such as in Three Sisters,

in which she appeared with her two sisters and father, in My Brilliant Friend at the National

Theatre, and in the Curious Incident of the dog in the night time.

Welcome, Nia. What was your first encounter with Mary Oliver? What drew you to her?

I love poetry and I always have a book of poetry on the go and about

15 years ago I bought myself an anthology called Staying Alive. And the very first poem in the anthology, it was actually

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