Three Bushes and Songs - W.B. Yeats
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]
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The Ballard of Albert Small
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.
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A short introuction to white poetics - Kenneth White [HD]
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
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Oread a poem by H.D.
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
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A short introuction to white poetics - Kenneth White
From the poem Late August on The Coast, read by the poet.
The whole poem is posted here https://youtu.be/R4UYDU8pfkQ
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Kenneth White reads 59 of his Poems
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""
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Geopoetics, Scottish Poetry, British Poetry, Postmodern,
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Late August on the Coast - Kenneth White
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
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Lamia - John Keats
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.
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Keats Dramatic Reading Lamia English Late Romantic Poetry Poets Poems, recitation, Audiobook, audio book, radio play
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Essay - Hayden Carruth
A sad and poem by Carruth.
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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
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King Arthur Radio Drama
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.
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radio play, audiobook, audio book, radio adaptation King Arthur Morte D'Arthur, the British Matter, Merlin, Morgan Le Fay
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Archibald MacLeish reads his Poetry
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
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Epistle to be Left in the Earth - Archibald MacLeish
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']
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not Marble nor the Gilded Monuments - Archibald MacLeish
Archibald MacLeish reads one of his poems.
A modernist poem of love and death, drawing on the traditions on Elizabethan love poetry.
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Sir Tristram's Imprisonment - Le Morte d'Arthur [1/2]
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.
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Snake - D. H. Lawrence
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 .
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
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
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new rider & horse - Che Qianzi
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
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chinese box - Che Qianzi
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
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chinese language poems in English translation
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The West Highland Line
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
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audiobook railroad Scotland Britain. history trains audio book
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Ezra Pound - A Virginal
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.
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reading, recitation, spoken word ,poetry, American, Ezra Pound, 20th Century
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Recalling Spring in Ch'ih-Chou - Li Po - 李白 - [3/3]
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"
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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.
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The Coming of Good Luck - Robert Herrick
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.
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cumulative happines - joy - contentment
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I felt a Funeral, in my Brain ~ Emily Dickinson
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 -
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Jacob & Essau
The bible story of Jacob's youth and coming of age retold for children.
Adapted from Book of Genesis, chapters 25–50.
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Audiobook audio book reading spoken word kids
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