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February 17, 2020Woman Work by Maya Angelou read by Angela McClanahan-Simmons'Woman Work' by Maya Angelou read by Angela McClanahan. 'Woman Work' first appeared in the collection, 'And Still I Rise' published by Random House in 1978. A transcript can be found at https://www.poemhunter.com/best-poems/maya-angelou/woman-work/ More from Angela McClanahan-Simmons can be found at https://www.eca.ed.ac.uk/profile/dr-angela-mcclanahan-simmons...more2minPlay
January 27, 2020Douglas Young, Sydney Goodsir Smith and Hugh MacDiarmid read by David Harding'The Last Lauch' by Douglas Young, 'Loch Leven' by Sydney Goodsir Smith and 'The Little White Rose' by Hugh MacDiarmid read by David Harding. In the early 1970s David Harding cast these poems into paving slabs next to bus stops and telephone kiosks around Glenrothes. Transcripts of the poems can be found at https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/last-lauch/ http://www.modernistmagazines.com/media/pdf/297.pdf https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46800/the-little-white-rose More from David Harding can be found at https://www.davidharding.net...more3minPlay
January 09, 2020C’est La Vie by Audun Mortensen read by Hanne Lillee'C’est La Vie' by Audun Mortensen read by Hanne Lillee. 'C’est La Vie' appears in the collection 'Aaliyah' published by Flamme Forlag in 2011.An image of the poem can be found at https://www.dropbox.com/s/85kn07bs68glprk/mortensen.jpeg?dl=0 More from Hanne Lillee can be found at http://www.hannelillee.com...more2minPlay
December 11, 2019'There's a certain Slant of light' by Emily Dickinson read by Anna Tanner'There's a certain Slant of light' by Emily Dickinson read by Anna Tanner. 'There's a certain Slant of light' first appears in it's original form in 'The Poems Of Emily Dickinson' published by Thomas H Johnson in 1955. A transcript can be found at www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45723/…of-light-320...more1minPlay
November 28, 2019Self-Portrait In A Convex Mirror (an excerpt) by John Ashbery read by Andrew Mummery'Self-Portrait In A Convex Mirror' (an excerpt) by John Ashbery read by Andrew Mummery who dedicates the reading to Philip Ackerman. 'Self-Portrait In A Convex Mirror' appears in the collection of the same name, first published by Viking Press in 1975. A transcript can be found at https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/browse?volume=124&issue=5&page=3 More from Andrew Mummery can be found at http://www.andrewmummery.co.uk...more3minPlay
November 23, 2019Dimmed-Up by Muriel Spark read by Lucy McEachan'Dimmed-Up' by Muriel Spark read by Lucy McEachan. 'Dimmed-Up' appears in 'All the Poems of Muriel Spark' published by New Directions in 2004. More from Lucy McEachan can be found at http://www.wearepanel.co.uk/about...more1minPlay
November 11, 2019O, Sun! by Neil Miller Gunn read by The Lonely Piper"O, Sun!" by Neil Miller Gunn read by The Lonely Piper. "O, Sun!" was first published in The Scottish Chapbook in Jul 1923 (Vol.1 No.12). Subsequently appearing in the novel "The Serpent" (1943). A transcript can be found at https://www.dropbox.com/s/9855t6ye6a2rqhc/IMG_8678%202.PNG?dl=0...more1minPlay
October 24, 2019The Horses by Ted Hughes read by Joanne Tatham'The Horses' by Ted Hughes read by Joanne Tatham. 'The Horses' appears in the collection, 'The Hawk in the Rain' first published by Faber and Faber in 1957. A transcript can be found at https://www.dropbox.com/s/68r38d0duphsego/59360526276__230F7251-A025-421F-B40F-303E79A49C90.jpg?dl=0 More from Joanne Tatham can be found at https://www.bookworks.org.uk/node/1988...more3minPlay
October 17, 2019A Position At The University by Lydia Davis read by Michelle Naismith'A Position At The University' by Lydia Davis read by Michelle Naismith. 'A Position At The University' appears in 'Almost No Memory' published by Picador in 1997. A transcript can be found at https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52125/a-position-at-the-university More from Michelle Naismith can be found at https://www.michellenaismith.com...more2minPlay
October 10, 2019The eclipse of the sun by Ingrid De Kok read by Roger Palmer'The eclipse of the sun' by Ingrid De Kok read by Roger Palmer. 'The eclipse of the sun' appears in the collection, 'Seasonal Fires - New And Selected Poems' published by Consortium Books in 2006. More from Roger Palmer can be found at http://www.rogerpalmer.info...more2minPlay