Konch

'Poem [Lana Turner has collapsed!]' by Frank O'Hara read by Alex Kennedy. 'Poem [Lana Turner has collapsed!]' was first published within 'Lunch Poems' by City Lights Books in 1964. A transcript can be found at https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/poem-lana-turner-has-collapsed . More from Alex Kennedy can be found at http://www.daatpress.com

'Shelter From The Storm' by Bob Dylan sung by Kathryn Elkin. 'Shelter From The Storm' was first recorded in 1974 and released by Columbia on the album 'Blood on the Tracks'. A transcript can be found at https://bobdylan.com/songs/shelter-storm/ . More from Kathryn Elkin can be found at https://lux.org.uk/artist/kathryn-elkin

'Last Night In London Airport' by Christopher Logue read by Stephen Sutcliffe. 'Last Night In London Airport' was first published in the London Underground in the 1980s as part of the 'Poems on the Underground' series. A transcript can be found at https://www.poemhunter.com/best-poems/christopher-logue/london-airport/

More from Stephen Sutcliffe can be found at https://lux.org.uk/artist/stephen-sutcliffe

'Opening The Cage' by Edwin Morgan read by Craig Mulholland. 'Opening The Cage' was first published in 'The Second Life', by Edinburgh University Press in 1968. A transcript can be found at http://spaniardintheworks.blogspot.co.uk/2008/04/edwin-morgan-opening-cage-14-variations.html

More from Craig Mulholland can be found at http://www.craigmulholland.com

‘Rat Song’ by Margaret Atwood read by Ciara Phillips. ‘Rat Song’ was first published in ‘Collected Poems 1965-1975 by Houghton Mifflin in 1976. A transcript can be found at https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/32774/rat-song

More from Ciara Phillips can be found at http://www.ciaraphillips.com

'A Dozen Cocktails Please' by Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven read by Lauren Hall. 'A Dozen Cocktails Please' was published in 1927 in The Little Review. A transcript can be found athttp://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88v/dozen.html More from Lauren Hall can be found at http://lauren-hall.com/home.html

'Dear Job Interview' by Matthew Dickman read by Chris Evans in Hohensalzburg Fortress. 'Dear Job Interview' was published in 'Job Interviews' by Para Site with uh books in 2017. A transcript can be found at http://www.para-site.org.hk/zh-HK/publications/job-interviews More from Chris Evans can be found at http://www.chrisevans.info

'An American Poem' by Eileen Myles read by Ruth Gilbert. 'An American Poem' was first published in 'Not Me (Native Agents)' by MIT Press in 1991. A transcript can be found at https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53965/an-american-poem

Cartwright Gardens: A Meditation by Jacques Roubaud, translated by Rosmarie Waldrop and read by Liza Dimbleby. ' Cartwright Gardens: A Meditation by Jacques Roubaud, translated by Rosmarie Waldrop .. The poem is a sort of mourning poem for the poet’s wife, the photographer, Alix-Cléo Roubaud, who died suddenly and young, in an accident — it is about the hotel that they used to, and he continues to, stay at in London … and also about a photograph she took of him from the balcony, walking below in the street, so you keep shifting between the viewpoint of where the photograph was taken from and the person walking in the photograph itself — as well as the memories between the two viewpoints …. the repetitions, of one, two three four etc like a beat are I think based on Japanese walking meditations. Japanese poetry has been a constant formal model for his work..(His second book was called Mono no aware and “reflected the desire to make poetry a spontaneous emanation of ambient reality” (Michael Sheringham, Everyday Life, 2006, p. 350). He is loosely associate with OuLiPO. This poem is from the collection The Plurality of Worlds of Lewis, Dalkey Archive Press, 1995.' Liza Dimbleby, 06.09.17. More from Liza Dimbleby can be found at http://www.lizadimbleby.com and at https://lizadimbleby.wordpress.com

"Just to clarify, the piece is actually a song usually sung in Japanese by my friend Tamio Shiraishi. He often sings during very intense cathartic performances. These songs are kinda legendary among people who follow Tamio’s music but very few non Japanese speaking people know what they are. Rumors float around that he sings kamikaze, yakuza and prison songs. In 2009 when he was here in Glasgow performing with our trio Ki. I took the opportunity to ask him about the songs and he happily provided translation of his entire repertoire. This reading is of a ‘traditional’ Japanese Prison Song to which i have added the names of the most notorious federal prisons in the USA.” from email on August 26, 2017 Fritz Welch. More from Tamio Shiraishi can be found at http://shiraishitamio.info/index.html And more from Fritz Welch can be found at http://humansacrifice.net