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In Flander's Fields and Other Poems About War
Author: John McCrae, Wilfred Owen
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Author John McCrae, Wilfred Owen
Narrator Ralph Cosham
Duration 53m
In WWI, possibly the most horrific modern war, two soldier poets described inner impressions telling us much about war and the people who fight them.
View BookSelected Poems From 'songs of Innocence and Experience'
Author: William Blake
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Author William Blake
Narrator Peter Beton
Duration 1h 25m
Including: SONGS OF INNOCENCE - 'The Echoing Green', 'The Lamb', 'The Blossom', 'The Chimney-Sweeper', 'A Cradle Song', 'The Divine Image', 'Nurse's Song' and 'Infant Joy'. SONGS OF EXPERIENCE - 'The Clod and the Pebble', 'The Chimney-Sweeper', 'Nurse's Song', 'The Sick Rose', 'The Tiger', 'London', 'The Human Abstract' and 'Infant Sorrow'.
View BookThe Penguin Book of First World War Poetry
Author: Matthew George Walter
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Author Matthew George Walter
Narrator Robert Welling
Duration 6h 55m
Reflecting the voices of poets, soldiers, the families they left behind and their comrades who would never return, The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry, previously published as In Flanders Fields, is edited with an introduction by George Walter in Penguin Classics. Unrivalled for its range and intensity, the poetry of the First World War cont...
View BookAuthor: By Benedict Flynn Translated
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Author By Benedict Flynn Translated
Narrator Crawford Logan
Duration 2h 24m
The oldest long poem in Old English, written about 1000 A.D., Beowulf tells the story of a great warrior in Southern Scandinavia in both youth and maturity. The monster Grendel terrorises the Scyldings of Hrothgar's Danish Kingdom until Beowulf defeats him. As a result he has to face her enraged mother. Beowulf dies after a battle against a fierce...
View BookTaking Off Emily Dickinson's Clothes: Selected Poems
Author: Billy Collins
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Author Billy Collins
Narrator Jeff Mash
Duration 2h 17m
Collins is one of America's best-selling poets, he is also one of the rarest kind. A writer of immense grace and humanity, Billy Collins shows how the great forces of history and nature converge on the tiniest details of our lives, and in doing so presents them in a new radiance. Suggested text for Edexcel GCSE English Literature.
View BookAuthor: Pam Ayres
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Author Pam Ayres
Narrator Pam Ayres
Duration 1h 51m
A third selection of verses, stories and sketches from the much-loved poet and comedian. Pam Ayres brings you four brand new shows made up of a delightful mix of poems, personal stories and sketches on subjects that have recently inspired her: 'In the Doghouse', 'Passion', 'On Yer Bike' and 'Shopping'.
View BookAuthor: Seamus Heaney
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Author Seamus Heaney
Narrator Ian Fitzgerald
Duration 46m
First published in 1966, this debut collection by Seamus Heaney signals the talent that was to win him the Nobel Prize in 1995. Largely addressing his rural childhood in County Derry, the volume begins with 'Digging', a poem which encapsulates Heaney's early concerns about roots, belonging and the supple joy of language. Other poems included are: F...
View BookThe Elements In Poetry: Poems About Water
Author: Andrew Fusek (ed.) Peters
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Author Andrew Fusek (ed.) Peters
Narrator Rachel Sternberg
Duration 17m
From trickling stream to violent flood, from sparkling ice to acid raid, and from the bath tub to the open sea, these poems look at the many contrasting faces that water takes in the world.
View BookThe Elements In Poetry: Poems About Air
Author: Andrew Fusek (ed.) Peters
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Author Andrew Fusek (ed.) Peters
Narrator Stephanie Beattie
Duration 23m
The poems in this audiobook explore air in many different guises, from breathing to hurricanes, thunder and lightning to migrations and the first historic hot air balloon flight. They cannot fail to make listeners young and old think anew about the amazing world that we live in.
View BookThe Great Poets: Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Author: Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Author Alfred Lord Tennyson
Narrator Michael Pennington
Duration 1h 7m
The selection of poetry in this audiobook includes `The Lady of Shalott', `Ulysses', `Tears, Idle Tears', `Merlin and the Gleam', `The Revenge', 'In Memoriam' (Prologue, Cantos VI, VII, XI, LIV, L, CXIX, CVI), 'Morte d'Arthur' (lines 213-323), `Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal' and `Crossing the Bar'.
View BookAuthor: Jackie Kay
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Author Jackie Kay
Narrator Jackie Kay
Duration 54m
An evocative collection of poems from award-winning Scottish poet Jackie Kay. From the hoarse, heaving seas of the Scottish isles to the dreamy streets of Paris, Jackie Kay takes the listener on a journey through memory and landscape, meeting a menagerie of characters on the way.
View BookNarrow Road To the Interior & Hojoki
Author: Matsuo Basho, Kamo no Chomei
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Author Matsuo Basho, Kamo no Chomei
Narrator Togo Igawa
Duration 2h 5m
Japanese poetry is well-known for its clarity and concision, and 'The Narrow Road to the Interior' and 'Hojoki' are two of the best-loved, and most intensely Japanese, works of their kind, famous for their beautiful, delicate verse and subtle insight into the human condition. It has been said of 'The Narrow Road' that 'it was as if the very soul of...
View BookAuthor: William Wordsworth
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Author William Wordsworth
Narrator Jasper Britton
Duration 1h 18m
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) was born in Cockermouth, in the Lake District. His Lyrical Ballads, written in collaboration with Coleridge, was published in 1798, and shortly afterwards he settled in Dove Cottage, Grasmere, with his sister Dorothy. Inspired in his early manhood by the French Revolution, he grew disillusioned with revolutionary poli...
View BookGreat Poets of the Romantic Age
Author: William Blake, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Various, Lord Byron
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Author William Blake, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Various, Lord Byron
Narrator Michael Sheen
Duration 2h 38m
A collection of 40 of the best works of Romantic poets such as Blake, Shelley, Coleridge, Wordsworth and Byron including 'The Tyger', 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud', 'Ode to the West Wind', 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner', 'Ode to a Nightingale', 'We'll go no more a-roving' and 'The Peasant Poet'. Supplemented with music from Beethoven, Mendelsso...
View BookAuthor: Various
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Author Various
Narrator
Duration 3h 20m
Following the appointment of Andrew Motion as Poet Laureate, this audiobook celebrates the best of all the Poets Laureate from John Dryden to Ted Hughes. Each poet has a short biography and review of his work as a poet and as Laureate read by Bill Paterson, which is followed by readings of the poems by Derek Jacobi and Diana Quick.
View BookAuthor: W B Yeats
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Author W B Yeats
Narrator Richard Popple, Peter Beton
Duration 6h 54m
W B Yeats (1865-1939) is one of the great and innovative poets of the twentieth century. Much of his most vigorous verse on love, sex, Irish and international politics, the complexites of the occult and the 'sedentary toil' of poetry was produced in the years between his fiftieth birthday in 1915 and his death in 1939. Timothy Webb is Professor of...
View BookEmergency Kit: Poems For Strange Times
Author: Jo Shapcott, Matthew Sweeney
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Author Jo Shapcott, Matthew Sweeney
Narrator Various
Duration 9h 10m
This audiobook is an anthology of poems. It values imagination, surprise and vivid expression, the outlandish and the playful. An unashamedly exuberant collection, containing work by internationally respected poets, such as Simon Armitage, Tony Harrison and Jackie Kay, as well as others who will be new to most listeners. It is, in short, living pro...
View BookAuthor: Various, Poets Various
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Author Various, Poets Various
Narrator Various
Duration 2h 1m
In a nationwide poll conducted by BBC Television's Bookworm to find the nation's favourite poem, Rudyard Kipling's 'If' was voted number one. This compilation brings together over forty poems from the poll, including the top ten, read by John Nettles, Siobh…n Redmond, Greg Wise and Emma Fielding.
View BookScars Upon My Heart: Women's Poetry and Verse of the First World War
Author: Catherine Reilly
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Author Catherine Reilly
Narrator Sophie Ablett
Duration 3h 38m
'Your battle wounds are scars upon my heart' wrote Vera Brittain in a poem to her beloved brother, four days before he died in June 1918 expressing the bitter sufferings of women as well as men in the terrible madness of the First World War. This, the first anthology of women war poets for over sixty years, will come as a surprise to many. It shows...
View BookAuthor: Ian Sansom
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Author Ian Sansom
Narrator Ian Sansom
Duration 9h 44m
This a book about a poet, about a poem, about a city, and about a world at a point of change. More than a work of literary criticism or literary biography, it is a record of why and how we create and respond to great poetry.This a book about a poet - W. H. Auden, a wunderkind, a victim-beneficiary of a literary cult of personality who became a scap...
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