Goblin Market

Written by Christina Rossetti

Narrated by Sarah Twomey

Christina Rossetti's long narrative poem about two innocent sisters, Lizzie and Laura, tempted by the delicious, magical fruit sold by goblin merchants as they walk through the glen... 

Morning and evening

Maids heard the goblins cry:

‘Come buy our orchard fruits,

Come buy, come buy...'

An Almost Tangible production, read by Sarah Twomey, directed by Carl Prekopp.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Almost Tangible
• Release date: Jun 24, 2023
• ISBN: 9781914356162

Christina Rossetti

Christina Rossetti was born in 1830 in London. She was the youngest child in a creative Italian family, which included her famous brother Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Their father, a poet and political exile from Italy, fell ill when Rossetti was a teenager and the family suffered financial difficulty. Rossetti started writing at a young age and her poems were often influenced by her religious faith. She published various poems in literary magazines, but it was Goblin Market & Other Poems, published in 1862 to great acclaim, that established her position as a prominent poet. She became ill towards the end of her life, first from Graves’ disease and then from cancer, but she continued to write until her death in 1894.