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POETRY FOR THE WINTER SEASON (Benjamin Zephaniah/ Christine Dimbleby/ David Pepper/ Hazel Pardon/ James Barraclough/ James Murphy/ Liz Farmer/ Roger McGough/ Ron Bloomfield/ Sandra Douglas Weir/ Tim Guilding/ Valerie Lennie) (Naxos Audio Books: NA242612)


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In November 2005, hundreds of people submitted recordings of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Roger McGough in an attempt to win a prize?á- participation in the recording of this new poetry collection by Christina Hardyment, historian and audiobook reviewer for The Times. The collection covers a wide range of classics by Shakespeare, Keats, Clare, Blake and others, as well as modern poems by Roger McGough among others. They are read mainly by the male and female first prize winners, but also by the runners-up. Poetry reading is alive and well in Britain!
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Item number NA242612
Barcode 9789626344262
Release date 02/10/2006
Category Poetry
Label Naxos AudioBooks
Media type CD
Number of units 2
Performers
Artists James Murphy
Christine Dimbleby
Benjamin Zephaniah
Valerie Lennie
Ron Bloomfield
David Pepper
Hazel Pardon
Sandra Douglas Weir
Tim Guilding
Liz Farmer
Roger McGough
James Barraclough
Disc: 1
Poetry for the Winter Season
1 THE START OF WINTER: Winter at Home - John Betjema
2 from The Village Curate - James Hurdis (1763 - 180
3 The Burning Of The Leaves - Laurence Binyon and El
4 The Smell Of Chrysanthemums - W.B. Yeats (1865 - 1
5 The Wild Swans At Coole - W. B. Yeats
6 from The Task: The Winter Evening - William Cowper
7 A Shropshire Lad XXXI - A. E. Housman (1859 - 1936
8 No! - Thomas Hood (1799 - 1845)
9 Hot Cake - Shu Hui (A.D. 265–306) Translated Arthu
10 Signs of Winter - John Clare (1793 - 1864)
11 November - John Clare
12 Winter Stores - Charlotte Brontë (1816 - 1855)
13 Now Winter Nights - Thomas Campion (1567 - 1620)
14 from The Eclipse Of The Moon - Lu T'ung (835)
15 WINTER FIRES: The Ways of the Wood - Anon
16 from The Window - Alfred Tennyson (1809 - 1892)
17 When You Are Old - W. B. Yeats
18 Old Song - Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883)
19 Armies In The Fire - Robert Louis Stevenson (1850
20 Logs On The Hearth: A Memory Of A Sister - Thomas
21 CHILDREN IN WINTER: Picture Books In Winter - Robe
22 from Songs For the Nursery 1805 - Anon
23 From January - John Clare
24 Snow - Edward Thomas (1878 - 1917)
25 King John's Christmas - A. A. Milne (1882 - 1956)
26 The Trouble With Snowmen - Roger McGough (1937 - )
27 Winter-Time - Robert Louis Stevenson
28 DEEP WINTER: Winter (from Love's Labour's Lost V,i
29 Inscription For An Old Bed - William Morris (1834
30 Snow In The Suburbs - Thomas Hardy
Disc: 2
Poetry for the Winter Season
1 Travelling In The Mountains - Tu Mu (805 - 59)
2 Frost At Midnight - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
3 London Snow - Robert Bridges (1844 - 1930)
4 WINTER HARDSHIPS: Winter, Plague And Pestilence -
5 Winter Complaint - Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
6 The Farm Womans Winter - Thomas Hardy
7 ROMANCING THE WINTER: from Epicurean Reminiscences
8 Silent Is The House - Emily Brontë (1818 - 1848)
9 The Cold Earth Slept Below - Percy Bysshe Shelley
10 Chloris In The Snow - William Strode (1602 - 1645)
11 The Eve Of St Agnes - John Keats (1795 - 1821)
12 A Glee For Winter - Alfred Domett (1811 - 1887)
13 CHRISTMAS TIME: In The Bleak Midwinter - Christina
14 The Old Shepherds - Eleanor Farjeon (1881 - 1965)
15 The Night Before Christmas - Clement Moore (1779 -
16 from Marmion - Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832)
17 Talking Turkeys - Benjamin Zephaniah (1958 - )
18 The Twelve Days of Christmas…Or Too Much Of A Good
19 NEW YEAR: New Year Snow - E. Nesbit (1858 - 1924)
20 The Old Year - John Clare
21 To The Nightingale Which The Author Heard Sing On
22 The New Year - edward Thomas
23 Auld Lang Syne - Robert Burns (1759 - 1796)
24 THE END OF WINTER: I Heard A Bird Sing - Oliver He
25 An Epitaph On A Robin Redbreast - Samuel Rogers (1
26 The Lover In Winter Plaineth For The Spring - Anon
27 At Candlemas - Charles Causley (1917 - 2003)
28 Ceremonies For Candlemas Eve - Robert Herrick (159
29 The Darkling Thrush - Thomas Hardy
30 The Fight Of The Year - Roger McGough
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