Label: Naxos AudioBooks
Genre: Poetry
Period: Contemporary
Catalogue No: NA242612
Barcode: 9789626344262
Release Date: 10/2006

HARDYMENT: Poetry for the Winter Season

In November 2005, hundreds of people submitted recordings of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Roger McGough in an attempt to win a prize—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!

Tracklist

Disc 1
Hardyment, Christina - Author
Pepper, David (Reader)
Farmer, Liz (Reader)
Weir, Sandra Douglas (Reader)
Pardon, Hazel (Reader)
Barraclough, James (Reader)
Murphy, James (Reader)
Dimbleby, Christine (Reader)
Bloomfield, Ron (Reader)
Guilding, Tim (Reader)
Lennie, Valerie (Reader)
McGough, Roger (Reader)
Zephaniah, Benjamin (Reader)
1 THE START OF WINTER: Winter at Home - John Betjeman (1906 - 1984) 07:55
Pepper, David (Reader)
2 from The Village Curate - James Hurdis (1763 - 1801) 03:44
Farmer, Liz (Reader)
3 The Burning Of The Leaves - Laurence Binyon and Elizabeth Jennings (1926 - 2001) 01:57
Weir, Sandra Douglas (Reader)
4 The Smell Of Chrysanthemums - W. B. Yeats (1865 - 1939) 01:42
Pardon, Hazel (Reader)
5 The Wild Swans At Coole - W. B. Yeats 01:40
Barraclough, James (Reader)
6 from The Task: The Winter Evening - William Cowper (1731 - 1800) 05:29
Weir, Sandra Douglas (Reader)
7 A Shropshire Lad XXXI - A. E. Housman (1859 - 1936) 01:20
Murphy, James (Reader)
8 No! - Thomas Hood (1799 - 1845) 01:34
Dimbleby, Christine (Reader)
9 Hot Cake - Shu Hui (A.D. 265–306) Translated Arthur Waley 01:18
Farmer, Liz (Reader)
10 Signs of Winter - John Clare (1793 - 1864) 01:12
Bloomfield, Ron (Reader)
11 November - John Clare 04:43
Barraclough, James (Reader)
12 Winter Stores - Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855) 02:48
Weir, Sandra Douglas (Reader)
13 Now Winter Nights - Thomas Campion (1567 - 1620) 01:10
Pepper, David (Reader)
14 from The Eclipse Of The Moon - Lu T'ung (835) 02:51
Barraclough, James (Reader)
15 WINTER FIRES: The Ways of the Wood - Anon 01:56
Pardon, Hazel (Reader)
16 from The Window - Alfred Tennyson (1809 - 1892) 01:02
Guilding, Tim (Reader)
17 When You Are Old - W. B. Yeats 01:02
Weir, Sandra Douglas (Reader)
18 Old Song - Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883) 02:20
Lennie, Valerie (Reader)
19 Armies In The Fire - Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894) 01:08
Pepper, David (Reader)
20 Logs On The Hearth: A Memory Of A Sister - Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928) 01:00
Barraclough, James (Reader)
21 CHILDREN IN WINTER: Picture Books In Winter - Robert Louis Stevenson 01:23
Farmer, Liz (Reader)
22 from Songs For the Nursery 1805 - Anon 00:28
Lennie, Valerie (Reader)
23 From January - John Clare 07:23
Weir, Sandra Douglas (Reader)
24 Snow - Edward Thomas (1878 - 1917) 00:37
Dimbleby, Christine (Reader)
25 King John's Christmas - A. A. Milne (1882 - 1956) 03:51
Pepper, David (Reader)
26 The Trouble With Snowmen - Roger McGough (1937 - ) 00:50
McGough, Roger (Reader)
27 Winter-Time - Robert Louis Stevenson 01:12
Dimbleby, Christine (Reader)
28 DEEP WINTER: Winter (from Love's Labour's Lost V, ii) - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) 01:42
Pardon, Hazel (Reader)
29 Inscription For An Old Bed - William Morris (1834 - 1896) 01:07
Pepper, David (Reader)
30 Snow In The Suburbs - Thomas Hardy 01:31
Murphy, James (Reader)
Disc 2
1 Travelling In The Mountains - Tu Mu (805 - 59) 00:56
Pardon, Hazel (Reader)
2 Frost At Midnight - Samuel Taylor Coleridge 04:31
Barraclough, James (Reader)
3 London Snow - Robert Bridges (1844 - 1930) 02:42
Weir, Sandra Douglas (Reader)
4 WINTER HARDSHIPS: Winter, Plague And Pestilence - Thomas Nashe (1567 - 1601) 01:51
Murphy, James (Reader)
5 Winter Complaint - Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971) 01:56
Weir, Sandra Douglas (Reader)
6 The Farm Womans Winter - Thomas Hardy 01:04
Pardon, Hazel (Reader)
7 ROMANCING THE WINTER: from Epicurean Reminiscences Of A Sentimentalist - Thomas Hood 03:33
Murphy, James (Reader)
8 Silent Is The House - Emily Bronte (1818 - 1848) 01:54
Farmer, Liz (Reader)
9 The Cold Earth Slept Below - Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822) 01:35
Bloomfield, Ron (Reader)
10 Chloris In The Snow - William Strode (1602 - 1645) 00:44
Guilding, Tim (Reader)
11 The Eve Of St Agnes - John Keats (1795 - 1821) 22:12
Pepper, David (Reader)
12 A Glee For Winter - Alfred Domett (1811 - 1887) 01:14
Lennie, Valerie (Reader)
13 CHRISTMAS TIME: In The Bleak Midwinter - Christina Rossetti (1830 - 1894) 02:24
Pardon, Hazel (Reader)
14 The Old Shepherds - Eleanor Farjeon (1881 - 1965) 00:53
Murphy, James (Reader)
15 The Night Before Christmas - Clement Moore (1779 - 1863) 03:30
Bloomfield, Ron (Reader)
16 from Marmion - Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832) 04:02
Weir, Sandra Douglas (Reader)
17 Talking Turkeys - Benjamin Zephaniah (1958 - ) 01:52
Zephaniah, Benjamin (Reader)
18 The Twelve Days of Christmas…Or Too Much Of A Good Thing - Anon 01:55
Farmer, Liz (Reader)
19 NEW YEAR: New Year Snow - E. Nesbit (1858 - 1924) 01:33
Weir, Sandra Douglas (Reader)
20 The Old Year - John Clare 01:12
Barraclough, James (Reader)
21 To The Nightingale Which The Author Heard Sing On New Year's Day - William Cowper 01:19
Pardon, Hazel (Reader)
22 The New Year - Edward Thomas 01:18
Pepper, David (Reader)
23 Auld Lang Syne - Robert Burns (1759 - 1796) 01:50
Lennie, Valerie (Reader)
24 THE END OF WINTER: I Heard A Bird Sing - Oliver Herford (1863 - 1935) 01:07
Pardon, Hazel (Reader)
25 An Epitaph On A Robin Redbreast - Samuel Rogers (1763 - 1855) 00:53
Dimbleby, Christine (Reader)
26 The Lover In Winter Plaineth For The Spring - Anon 00:28
Murphy, James (Reader)
27 At Candlemas - Charles Causley (1917 - 2003) 00:58
Barraclough, James (Reader)
28 Ceremonies For Candlemas Eve - Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674) 01:15
Farmer, Liz (Reader)
29 The Darkling Thrush - Thomas Hardy 01:28
Pepper, David (Reader)
30 The Fight Of The Year - Roger McGough 01:18
McGough, Roger (Reader)

Total Playing Time: 02:21:22