Poetry Cafe May 26, 2016 John Clare (1793 – 1864), Nature Poet Texts by Clare read and Music played: 1. Der Tageloehner-Poet 2, The Peasant Poet 3. Sommerabend 4. Summer Evening 5. Morning 6. Remembrances 7. Butterworth: English Idyll no. 1...
Texts read and Music played: 1. Moths and Butterflies, from Wand of Youth, by Edward Elgar 2. National Trust Guidebook to Sissinghurst 3. The Garden, by Vita Sackville-West 4. Fantasia on Greensleeves, by Ralph Vaughan Williams 5. Sissinghurst,...
Text read and Music played: 1. Flowery Tuscany, D.H. Lawrence 2. Inferno (opening), Dante 3. The fair land…, Petrarch 4. Primavera, Botticelli 5. Spring – Largo, from The Four Seasons, Vivaldi 6. L’Alba separa dalla luce l’ombra, Tosti...
Texts read and Music played: 1. The Eagle and the Hawk, John Denver 2. Lunardi’s Balloon Ascent, December 1784 3. Learning to Fly, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers 4. Coxwell and Glaischer’s 1852 Balloon Ascent 5. Up, Up and Away, Fifth...
Texts read and Music played: 1. Engine sound 1956 Austin A35 2. Mobile Pursuit 3. Wheels Cha-Cha 4. Meditation on the A30, John Betjeman 5. Engine sound: 1925 Bentley 3 litre 6. Motor-Car-Acteristics 7. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame...
Poems read and Music played 1. Count Basie: Take the A Train 2. John Davidson: Song of a Train 3. Robert Louis Stevenson: From a Railway Carriage 4. Villa Lobos: The Little Train of Caipira, Suite no.2 from Bacchianas Brasilienses 5. Andrew Barton...
Poems read and Music played 1. Gerry and the Pacemakers: Youll Never Walk Alone 2. Roger McGough: Out of Work 3. Beatles: Getting Better 4. Adrian Henri: Tea with the Poet 5. Adrian Henri: A Haiku 6. Adrian Henri: Liverpool 8 7. Adrian Henri:...
Poems read and Music played:- 1. Paul Muldoon: Why Brownlee Left 2. Seamus Heaney: Digging 3. Seamus Heaney: Death of a Naturalist 4. Seamus Heaney: Mid-Term Break 5. Alasdair Maclean: Death of an Old Woman 6. Jackie Kay: Brendon Gallacher 7....
from the 1940s to the early 1960s Poems read and Music played:- 1. Stevie Smith, ‘Not Waving but Drowning’ 2. Elizabeth Jennings, ‘One Flesh’ 3. John Betjeman, ‘Devonshire Street W.1’ 4. John Betjeman,...
