3 audio discs (3 hr., 37 min.) : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in digital optical 1.4 m/s stereo
Other Title:
British poets [book on CD]
Notes:
British Library: NSACD 60--NSACD 62 (on container spine: NSACD 60-62) Compact discs BBC Radio broadcasts of poetry readings Includes previously unreleased recordings Program notes by Sir Andrew Morton inserted in container, and texts of first 3 poems Some poems preceded by introductory remarks Poets reading their own poetry Recorded ca. 1889-ca. 1980 In English and Gaelic
Contents:
[Disc 1] Charge of the Light Brigade ; Charge of the Heavy Brigade at Balaclava (extract) (Alfred, Lord Tennyson) How they brought the good news from Ghent to Aix (Robert Browning) For the fallen (September, 1914) ; Pine trees ; Home coming ; For mercy, courage, kindness, mirth (Laurence Binyon) Thomas Hardy ; Sotto voce ; To K.M. [Katherine Mansfield] ; Away (Walter de la Mare) A prayer for king and country ; Sea fever ; On growing old (John Masefield) Lullaby ; Dirge for the new sunrise ; Heart and mind ; Scotch rhapsody (Edith Sitwell) Reflections in a slum ; Old wife in high spirits (Hugh MacDiarmid) Love in barrenness ; The terraced valley ; Like snow ; Through nightmare ; To Juan at the winter solstice ; Song of Blodeuwedd ; The white goddess (Robert Graves) The wall (David Jones) On the fly-leaf of Pound's Cantos ; What the chairman told Tom (Basil Bunting) Not waving but drowning ; Persephone ; At school (Stevie Smith) [Disc 2] Do not expect again a phoenix hour ; Come, live with me and be my love ; Tempt me no more ; Overture to death ; In the heart of contemplation (Cecil Day Lewis) Middlesex ; Eunice ; The Irish unionist's farewell to Greta Hellstrom in 1922 ; Caprice (John Betjeman) As I walked out one evening ; On this island ; As he is ; The shield of Achilles (W.H. Auden) Sunday morning ; Snow ; The sunlight on the garden ; The creditor (Louis MacNeice) Rough ; The truly great ; The express ; Elementary school classroom in a slum (Stephen Spender) Hallaig (read in English) ; Hallaig (read in Scottish Gaelic) (Sorley MacLean) The other ; Ancestors ; Plas Difancoll (R.S. Thomas) The ballad of Yucca Flats ; Home thoughts (George Barker) Poem in October ; Fern Hill ; And death shall have no dominion (Dylan Thomas) The three stars ; The post-war night ; Birth of a prince ; Evening again (David Gascoyne) [Disc 3] Purkis ; Old Mobb ; Susanna ; Bevis of Hampton (John Heath-Stubbs) To Alexander Graham ; Imagine a forest ; To my wife at midnight (W.S. Graham) Canedolia ; The computer's first Christmas carol ; Alienation ; The Loch Ness monster's song (Edwin Morgan) Our Lady of the Waves (George Mackay Brown) A dream of fair women ; After Goliath ; An ever-fixed mark (Kingsley Amis) A study of reading habits ; Dockery and son ; The Whitsun weddings (Philip Larkin) Finlay's house (in Rousay) ; Gift ; Art student ; Black Tomintoul (Ian Hamilton Finlay) From the wave ; Sunlight ; Apartment cats (Thom Gunn) Pike ; Out ; Theology ; Pibroch (Ted Hughes)
