White Ash Flies

White Ash Flies

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White Ash Flies episodes

  • Zander's Sunday Sauce - La Corona, a sonnet sequence by John Donne

    Another Sunday, another installment of Zander's Sunday Sauce on White Ash Flies, featuring La Corona (1608 or thereabouts), a sonnet sequence by John Donne, read by Colin Mahoney:


    50 sec, Sonnet 1

    2 min, Sonnet 2, Annunciation

    3 min, 12 sec, Sonnet 3, Nativity

    4 min, 20 sec, Sonnet 4, Temple

    5 min, 25 sec, Sonnet 5, Crucifying

    6 min, 40 sec, Sonnet 6, Resurrection

    7 min, 52 sec, Sonnet 7, Ascension

    10 min
  • Cathay - Episode 1

    Tonight, the first installment of Cathay (1915), a book of Chinese poems in translation (via Japanese and Italian) by Ezra Pound, read by Colin Mahoney.


    1 min, The Bowman of Shu

    3 min, 20 sec, The Beautiful Toilet

    4 min, 15 sec, The River Song

    7 min, 30 sec, The River Merchant's Wife: A Letter

    10 min
  • Zander's Sunday Sauce - Psalm 137 in 2 Takes

    On White Ash Flies, this week's installment of Zander's Sunday Sauce features a side-by-side of two translations of Psalm 37, read by Colin Mahoney:  One by Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542)and a second from the Oxford Annotated Bible, the Standard Revised Edition.

    5 min, 55 secs, Sir Thomas Wyatt's translation

    15 min
  • SONNET OCTAGON - Episode 1

    This is the first installment of a new series on White Ash Flies, SONNET OCTAGON: The sonnets of Edmund Spenser (1552?-1599) and William Shakespeare (1564-1616), read by Colin Mahoney.  Tonight, Sonnets 1-3 by each.

    8 min

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White Ash Flies is an audible, on-line anthology drawn from that abiding and rich sea of content, the public domain. I’ll select and serialize recordings of myself reading my favorite poetry, fiction,…