The Poetry Podcast with Lance Pierson

In our 17th programme Lance reads the famous poem 'Adlestrop' by Edward Thomas (one of the last two poems describing England before the 1st World War) and then two related poems by others of the Dymock Poets: 'The Golden Room' by WW Gibson and 'The Road Not Taken' by Robert Frost.

In our 16th programme Lance reads one poem by each of the four poets: Keats's 'To Autumn'; Shelley's 'The Cloud'; Byron's 'She Walks in Beauty'; and Clare's 'Decay'.

In our 15th programme Lance reads four poems by the first generation of English Romantic poets: Wordsworth's 'Daffodils' and an extract from 'The Prelude'; and Coleridge's 'Kubla Khan' and 'My Baptismal Birth-day'.

The short poem 'Daffodils' is from Bad Bad Cats, (c) Roger McGough 1997.

In our 14th programme Lance reads one longer poem: ST Coleridge's 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'.

In our 13th programme Lance reads four Ballads, and there is one traditional song.  The song is 'The Ballad of Barbara Allen'.  The traditional Ballads are 'Sir Patrick Spens' and 'Get up and Bar the Door'.  The literary Ballads are John Keats' 'La Belle Dame Sans Merci' and Charles Causley's 'Ballad of the Bread Man'.

Acknowledgements

'Ballad of the Bread Man' by Charles Causley is recorded by kind permission of the copyright holders' agents, David Higham Associates.

In our 12th programme Lance reads six poems that make him laugh. The poems are Marriott Edgar's 'The Return of Albert', PG Wodehouse's 'Printer's Error', AP Herbert's 'Bacon and Eggs', CJ Dennis's 'K'shoo', Edwin Morgan's 'The Loch Ness Monster's Song' and an anonymous set of 'Zen Error Messages'.

Acknowledgements

'Printer's Error' by PG Wodehouse is recorded by kind permission of the copyright holders, Rogers, Coleridge & White Ltd, 20 Powis Mews, London W11 1JW.

'The Return of Albert' by Marriott Edgar, 'Bacon and Eggs' by AP Herbert and 'The Loch Ness Monster's Song' by Edwin Morgan are Copyright Control.

In our eleventh programme Lance reads six favourite poems about Christmas and the festive season. The poems are Rudyard Kipling's 'Eddi's Service', Michael Hewlett's 'When God Almighty Came To Be One Of Us', John Betjeman's 'Christmas', Veronica Zundel's 'Incarnation', Christina Rossetti's 'In the Bleak Midwinter' and Norman Nicholson's 'Carol for the Last Christmas Eve.' 

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Aitken Alexander Associates who represent the Estate of John Betjeman. 

'Incarnation' is recorded by kind permission of the writer, Veronica Zundel. She writes non-fiction for the Christian market and has recently graduated, with distinction, from the Poetry School/Newcastle University MA in Writing Poetry, with poems published in various anthologies.

Thanks to the Trustees of the Estate of Norman Nicholson for permission to record his 'Carol for the Last Christmas Eve' from his COLLECTED POEMS, published by Faber & Faber.

Michael Hewlett's 'When God Almighty came to be one of us' is Copyright Control. It was published in New Life by Stainer & Bell, 1969.

In our tenth programme Lance responds to a listener request for a poem by Rudyard Kipling. Lance reads five of Kiplings poems including 'The Camel's Hump', 'The Way Through the Woods', 'Tommy', 'The Secret of the Machines' and 'When Earth's Last Picture is Painted.'

In our ninth programme we enjoy some poems written for children. Lance picks out five of his favourites: 'The Owl and the Pussy Cat' by Edward Lear, 'Jabberwocky' by Lewis Carroll, 'The King's Breakfast' by A A Milne, 'The Listeners' by Walter de la Mare and 'After Ever Happily' by Ian Serraillier.

In our eighth programme we look at Wordsworth's famous poem 'Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802.' That poem is the climax of Lance's Guided Poetry Walk along the Banks of the Thames. One of the things Lance shows visitors is a series of paving stones with poem extracts that are on the walkway near the Festival Hall. So on this program Lance reads all four paving stone poems before finishing with Wordsworth's famous words - just as he does on the walk!