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Siobhan McKenna reads a cycle of short poems by Yeats. 00:03 The Three Bushes 04:23 The Lady's first song 04:55 The Lady's second song 06:09 The Lady's third song 07:05 The Lover's song 07:41 The Chambermaid's first song 08:15 The Chambermaid's second song Taken from Last Poems [1936-1939]

aka 'Woof Woof goes the Wolf Hound'. Midnight & Noone's orginal version of the perenial tune. Taken from John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme. [s9e5] n.b. Some contend that Midnight was replaced by an understudy in this performance.

or 'I grilled his chin'. From a back copy of The Harpoon.

A bit I like from the poem 'Late August on The Coast' read by the poet. The whole poem is posted here https://youtu.be/R4UYDU8pfkQ

Hilda Doolittle's exemplum of Imagist poetry. Whirl up, sea— whirl your pointed pines, splash your great pines on our rocks, hurl your green over us, cover us with your pools of fir. 1915

From the poem Late August on The Coast, read by the poet. The whole poem is posted here https://youtu.be/R4UYDU8pfkQ

59 poems taken from the cassettes "Into the White World". The poems are from White's collections "The Bird Path" and the "Handbook for the Diamond Country". The audio quality is good in parts. 00:00 from The Bird Path 00:11 Scotia Deserta 04:34 Early Morning Light on Loch Sunart 05:47 Letters from Harris 09:50 Crow Meditation Text 12:59 Hölderlin in Bordeaux 15:20 Remembering Gourgounel 17:52 Reading Han Shan in the Pyrenees 20:35 In Aquitania 25:17 Mountain Study 28:52 Labrador 35:00 In the Nashvac Night 36:58 Brandan's last Voyage 43:18 Melville at Arrowhead 45:30 The Ocean Way 47:37 The House at the Head of the Tide 51:12 The Chaoticist Manifesto 53:17 The Winter Ceremony 57:13 Late August on the Coast 01:07:28 from Handbook for the Diamond Country 01:07:37 Report to Erigena 01:08:36 Morning Walk 01:09:09 Chant 01:09:33 New moon 01:10:18 The territory 01:10:43 McTaggart 01:11:19 Crab Nebula 01:11:50 Near point of Stoer 01:12:14 The most difficult area 01:12:48 Sun Yoga 01:13:14 In a cafe at Largs 01:13:41 Letter to an old calligrapher 01:14:09 Late December by the Sound of Jura 01:14:40 Walls 01:15:09 Round North again 01:15:53 Strathclyde 01:16:26 Late Summer Journey 01:16:54 Ludaig jetty 01:17:28 Last page of a notebook 01:17:47 A high blue day on Scalpay 01:18:27 Xenophanes of kolophon 01:19:01 Found on the shores of the Black Sea 01:20:04 Europe in the Fall 01:20:38 The lat days of the academy 01:21:14 Theory 01:22:04 A morning's Work 01:22:36 A Fragment of yellow silk 01:23:02 A raw blue morning in Antwerp 01:23:28 Letter from Amsterdam 01:24:15 Joseph Martin's report 01:24:46 West Labrador 01:25:15 Ungava 01:25:41 Achawakamik 01:26:21 Autumn afternoon 01:26:47 South-west corner news 01:27:25 Prose for the Col de Marie-Blanque 01:28:47 Blue thistle sermon 01:29:13 The old sea-chapel at Paimpol 01:29:55 A letter from Wisconsin 01:30:34 On the quay at Lannion 01:30:58 Meditant Tony McManus's spoken introduction to these readings is posted here https://youtu.be/iuJ6Fe_Ma6U "She's all goose"" ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// Geopoetics, Scottish Poetry, British Poetry, Postmodern,

The poet reads his poem. 07:50 a short introduction to white poetics [bird calls]. The full album of White's poem is posted here https://youtu.be/cvdjf75nO4I. The photograph 'Snow Goose in Flight' is by Jai Johnson. https://fineartamerica.com/featured/snow-goose-in-flight-jai-johnson.html

A lovely dramatic presentation of Keat's longish poem. The poem has been slightly abridged, here and there, presumably to make it more fitted to the dramatic format. It was made by the Beebeesee for R4 and has a good cast. I had forgotten all about this; I rediscovered it on an old laptop. ////////////////////////////// Keats Dramatic Reading Lamia English Late Romantic Poetry Poets Poems, recitation, Audiobook, audio book, radio play

A sad and poem by Carruth. Essay So many poems about the deaths of animals. Wilbur’s toad, Kinnell’s porcupine, Eberhart’s squirrel, and that poem by someone–Hecht? Merrill?– about cremating a woodchuck. But mostly I remember the outrageous number of them, as if every poet, I too, had written at least one animal elegy; with the result that today when I came to a good enough poem by Edwin Brock about finding a dead fox at the edge of the sea I could not respond; as if permanent shock had deadened me. And then after a moment I began to give way to sorrow (watching myself sorrowlessly the while), not merely because part of my being had been violated and annulled, but because all these many poems over the years have been necessary–suitable and correct. This has been the time of the finishing off of the animals. They are going away–their fur and their wild eyes, their voices. Deer leap and leap in front of the screaming snowmobiles until they leap out of existence. Hawks circle once or twice around their shattered nests and then they climb to the stars. I have lived with them fifty years, we have lived with them fifty million years, and now they are going, almost gone. I don’t know if the animals are capable of reproach. But clearly they do not bother to say good-bye. – Hayden Carruth

A 6 episode adaptation of the King Arthur legend, with an impressive cast and high production values. 1. The King's Sword 00:00 2. The Black Dog 00:41:56 3. The Lake 01:24:18 4. The Moon Eats the Sun 02:06:56 5. The Grail 02:49:23 6. The Final Battle 03:31:48 Interestingly the series had two writers one who wrote the first three episodes and another who wrote the last three. terms radio play, audiobook, audio book, radio adaptation King Arthur Morte D'Arthur, the British Matter, Merlin, Morgan Le Fay

The American modernist poet reads a score or so of his poems. [taken from a vinyl LP] Side 1: The Old Man to the Lizard 00:00 They Came No More, Those Words, Those Finches 00:43 What Any Lover Learns 01:19 FROM Conquistador: - Bernal Diaz, Preface to his Book 02:02 - The 6th Book, Part 1 05:39 The Renovated Temple 08:20 Calypso's Island 10:11 Not Marble nor the Gilded Monuments 12:46 The Cat in the Wood 15:13 Winter is Another Country 15:43 A Man's Work 16:29 Years of the Dog 17:08 Ezry 18:58 The Learned Men 19:53 The Silent Slain 20:42 L'An Trentiesme de mon Eage 21:41 Immortal Helix 22:50 Epistle to be Left in the Earth 23:18 Side 2: Actfive, COMPLETE: -The Stage All Blood 25:55 -The Masque of Mummers 34:53 -The Shape of Flesh and Bone 43:33 from the book The Collected Poems of Archibald MacLeish. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1952. Library of Congress number R A 55-160

The American, statesman, soldier, librarian, poet reads his poem of the far future. The picture is from the Time Machine Fandom website. https://timemachine.fandom.com/wiki/Crab_monsters [added to website by 'Future reptile']

Archibald MacLeish reads one of his poems. A modernist poem of love and death, drawing on the traditions on Elizabethan love poetry.

From the end of Book IX Chapter 36 of Sir Thomas Malory's le Morte d'Arthur. In this touching passage I suspect that Sir Thomas is drawing upon his own experiences to comment on Sir Tristram's plight. "And, as the French book saith, there came forty knights to Sir Darras that were of his own kin, and they would have slain Sir Tristram and his two fellows, but Sir Darras would not suffer that, but kept them in prison, and meat and drink they had. So Sir Tristram endured there great pain, for sickness had undertake him, and that is the greatest pain a prisoner may have. For all the while a prisoner may have his health of body, he may endure under the mercy of God, and in hope of good deliverance; but when sickness toucheth a prisoner’s body, then may a prisoner say all wealth is him bereft, and then he hath cause to wail and to weep. And so did Sir Tristram when sickness had undertake him, for then he took such sorrow that he had almost slain himself." Sir Thomas Malory knight-prisoner.

A super reading of Lawrence's poem. The album of D.H. Lawrence poems from which this was taken has been posted here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc8QQju7X5M .

A good dramatic reading of an extremely abridged audiobook/radio adaptation of Hardy's novel. title and theme music 00:00 1. Sir John of Marlot 00:27 2. At Trantridge 18:33 3. Return to Marlot 42:27 4. At Talbothays 52:25 5. Secrets & Confessions 1:21:00 6. Probation 1:37:17 7. Forgiveness . 1:57:33 8. The Flight 2:06:50

A poem by Che Qianzi translated from the Chinese by Jeff Twitchell. Fire-like gallop What burns away first os the rider's head Then the shoulders Then the arms Then the chest Then the belly Then the waist Then the buttocks Then the legs And then the horse's body Jade-green mane And the horse's head Finally, the horse's legs Everything is burned away Then they will run faster [Here is another translation of a poem in by Che Qianzi https://youtu.be/O9vaKP3IRcs ] "New Horse and Rider" is taken from "Original: Chinese Language-Poetry Group" published by Parataxis Editions of Brighton 1994 A special edition of Parataxis: modernism and modern writing Number 7, Spring 1995 terms chinese language poems in English translation ...

A poem by Che Qianzi translated from the Chinese by Jeffrey Twitchell. Open a box, inside Still another Open this box Inside still still Open the box In the opened box Lies (like a feather Lying on a dead bird's body) another Box Opened a box Opened a box Open a box open A box I want to find one Containing no boxes No matter how small Empty box As if when I have discovered they are emperors I will already have been hovering in the sky Walking on the earth, I drink water The emperor takes off, in order to Better enter The time he would like to go into All this Painted on The surface of the box [Here is another translation of a poem in by Che Qianzi https://youtu.be/sKMMYnu_qtc ] "Chinese Box" is taken from "Original: Chinese Language-Poetry Group" published by Parataxis Editions of Brighton 1994 A special edition of Parataxis: modernism and modern writing Number 7, Spring 1995 terms chinese language poems in English translation

A musical and historical audio journey along the picturesque Scottish railway line. This was produced as a promotional cassette tape by ScotRail. The first sod of turf removed to make way for the West Highland line was lifted on a silver spade. "The Life and Legend of the WestHighland Line" : ScotRail terms: audiobook railroad Scotland Britain. history trains audio book

An Italian sonnet by Ezra Pound. A Virginal No, no! Go from me. I have left her lately. I will not spoil my sheath with lesser brightness, For my surrounding air hath a new lightness; Slight are her arms, yet they have bound me straitly And left me cloaked as with a gauze of æther; As with sweet leaves; as with subtle clearness. Oh, I have picked up magic in her nearness To sheathe me half in half the things that sheathe her. No, no! Go from me. I have still the flavour, Soft as spring wind that’s come from birchen bowers. Green come the shoots, aye April in the branches, As winter’s wound with her sleight hand she staunches, Hath of the trees a likeness of the savour: As white their bark, so white this lady’s hours. I like the sextet's unusual EFGGEF scheme. /////////// reading, recitation, spoken word ,poetry, American, Ezra Pound, 20th Century

Arthur Waley's translation of a poem by 李白 (aka Li Bai, Li Po, Li Bo etc). These lines were written in the spring of AD759 while the poet was travelling up the Yangtze into exile. The blossoming of the trees reminded him of the happier springs he had spent at Ch'ih-chou. Peach-trees in flower and the spring waters rising, White rocks now covered, now showing again. Wistaria-blossom shaking on the bough, A half moon hanging in the blue sky. And show many clenched bracken fists Growing along the paths where I used to walk? When in three years I come back from Yeh-lang There it will be that I change my bones to gold! The final line is a reference to alchemy, in which Li Po had dabbled. The poem and information are taken from Waley's "The Poetry & Career of Li Po" /////////////////terms////////////////////////////////// English translation from the Chinese, Tang Dynasty Poet, poems, Chinese ,Poetry Reading, spring, recital recitation spoken word, China. romantic, dissolute Poet, verse, Moon. Wisteria, Taoist Alchemy.

A little poem by the 17th century English poet Robert Herrick. So good luck came, and on my roof did light, Like noiseless snow, or as the dew of night : Not all at once, but gently, as the trees Are by the sunbeams, tickled by degrees. ************************* cumulative happines - joy - contentment

Reading of Dickinson's poem (340). [with English subtitles] I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, And Mourners to and fro Kept treading - treading - till it seemed That Sense was breaking through - And when they all were seated, A Service, like a Drum - Kept beating - beating - till I thought My mind was going numb - And then I heard them lift a Box And creak across my Soul With those same Boots of Lead, again, Then Space - began to toll, As all the Heavens were a Bell, And Being, but an Ear, And I, and Silence, some strange Race, Wrecked, solitary, here - And then a Plank in Reason, broke, And I dropped down, and down - And hit a World, at every plunge, And Finished knowing - then -

The bible story of Jacob's youth and coming of age retold for children. Adapted from Book of Genesis, chapters 25–50. / / / / Audiobook audio book reading spoken word kids