Various - The Poet Speaks - Record Six - Nineteen Poets FLAC

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• Producer [Edited By] – Peter Orr

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"Recorded in association with the British Council and the Poetry Room in the Lamont Library of Harvard University. Edited by Peter Orr
The readings which are heard on these records are taken from a larger series of recordings of contemporary poets reading their own works, made by the British Council in association with the Poetry Room in the Lamont Library of Harvard University. These readings are accompanied by an interview in which the poet discusses various aspects of his arts and we have included here brief extracts from these interviews so that the listener has the opportunity to hear each poet not only as a reader of his own poems but as a person talking informally, and often revealingly, about poetry. Many of these interviews appear in a volume entitled 'The Poet Speaks', edited by Peter Orr and published by Routledge & Kegan Paul. The recordings were made between 1960 and 1965, most of them at the British Council in London, but some at the homes of the poets, which accounts for some variation in the quality of recording. Our thanks are due to the poets and publishers named below for permission to use copyright material.

Side One

John Arden
Here I Come
(Recorded 24 January, 1964)

Michael Baldwin
Death on a Live Wske
(Recorded 21 March, 1963)

Taner Baybars
Going Home to meet Myself
(Recorded 12 September, 1963)

Patricia Beer
Ballad of the Red-Headed Man
(Recorded 5 January, 1965)

George Mackay Brown
The Seven Houses: In Memory of fohn F. Kennedy
(Recorded 13 October, 1964, in Edinburgh)

John Fuller
An Exchange between the Fingers and the Toes
(Recorded 2 April, 1964, in Manchester)

Michael Harnett
They Drag Me Raw
(Recorded 17 Octobet, 1963)

Hamish Henderson
A Flyting of Life and Death
(Recorded 13 October, 1964 in Edinburgh)

David Holbrook
Cardoness Castle
(Recorded 17 November, 1964)

Side Two

James Liddy
Patrick Kavanagh's Dublin
(Recorded 17 October, 1963)

George MacBeth
The Drazeer
(Recorded 2 August, 1963)

Christopher Middleton
Dangers of Waking
(1(ecorded ll July, 1963)

Adrian Mitchell
The Dust
(Recorded 8 August, 1963)

Ruth Pitter
A Dream
(Recorded 24 March, 1964)

Herbert Read
To a Conscript of 1940
(Recorded 29 March, 1961)

Edward Thomas
Adlestrop (read by Helen Thomas)
(Recorded 8 April, 1964, in Eastbury, Berkshire)

Anthony Thwaite
Mr Cooper
(Recorded 9 July, 1962)

Rosemary Tonks
Badly Chosen Lover
(Recorded 22 July, 1963)

David Wevill
The Fox at Aries
(Recorded 26 May, 1964)