British Library: NSACD 60--NSACD 62 (on container spine: NSACD 60-62) Compact discs. Program notes by Sir Andrew Morton and text of some poems ([28] p.) inserted in container. Read by the authors. Recordings of BBC broadcasts made between 1889 and 1969; includes previously unreleased recordings.
Contents:
Pibroch Charge of the Light Brigade at Balaclava (extract) (Ted Hughes) How they brought the good news from Ghent to Aix (Robert Browning) -- For the fallen (September, 1914) ; Pine trees ; Home coming ; For mercy, courage, kindness, mirth (Laurence Binyon) -- Thomas Hardy ; Sotto voce ; To K.M. [Katherine Mansfield] ; Away (Walter de la Mare) -- A prayer for king and country ; Sea fever ; On growing old (John Masefield) -- Lullaby ; Dirge for the new sunrise ; Heart and mind ; Scotch rhapsody (Edith Sitwell) -- Reflections in a slum ; Old wife in high spirits (Hugh MacDiarmid) -- Love in a barrenness ; The terraced valley ; Like snow ; Through nightmare ; To Juan at the winter solstice ; Song of Blodeuwedd ; The white goddess (Robert Graves) -- The wall (David Jones) -- On the fly-leaf of Pound's Cantos ; What the chairman told Tom (Basil Bunting) -- Not waving but drowning ; Persephone ; At school (Stevie Smith) -- Do not expect again a phoenix hour ; Come, live with me and be my love ; Tempt me no more ; Overture to death ; In the heart of contemplation (Cecil Day Lewis) -- Middlesex ; Eunice ; The Irish unionist's farewell to Greta Hellstrom in 1922 ; Caprice (John Betjeman) -- As I walked out one evening ; On this island ; As he is ; The shield of Achilles (W.H. Auden) -- Sunday morning ; Snow ; The sunlight on the garden ; The creditor (Louis MacNeice) -- Rough ; The truly great ; The express ; Elementary school classroom in a slum (Stephen Spender) -- Hallaig (read in Scottish Gaelic) Hallaig (read in Scottish Gaelic) (Sorley MacLean) -- The other ; Ancestors ; Plas Difancoll (R.S. Thomas) -- The ballad of Yucca Flats ; Home thoughts (George Barker) -- Poem in October ; Fern Hill ; And death shall have no dominion (Dylan Thomas) -- The three stars ; The post-war night ; Birth of a prince ; Evening again (David Gascoyne) -- Purkis ; Old Mobb ; Susanna ; Bevis of Hampton (John Heath-Stubbs) -- To Alexander Graham ; Imagine a forest ; To my wife at midnight (W.S. Graham) -- Canedolia ; The computer's first Christmas carol ; Alienation ; The Loch Ness Monster's song (Edwin Morgan) -- Our Lady of the Waves (George Mackay Brown) -- A dream of fair women ; After Goliath ; An ever-fixed mark (Kingsley Amis) -- A study of reading habits ; Dockery and son ; The Whitsun weddings (Philip Larkin) -- Finlay's house (in Rousay) ; Gift ; Art student ; Black Tomintoul (Ian Hamilton Finlay) -- From the wave ; Sunlight ; Apartment cats (Thom Gunn) -- Pike ; Out ; Theology ; Pibroch (Ted Hughes)
Summary:
Historic recordings of British poets reading their own poetry.
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