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Author(s): Hardyment, Christina
Reader(s): Barraclough, James; Bloomfield, Ron; Dimbleby, Christine; Farmer, Liz; Guilding, Tim; Lennie, Valerie; McGough, Roger; Murphy, James; Pardon, Hazel; Pepper, David; Weir, Sandra Douglas; Zephaniah, Benjamin
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)
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