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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 – 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!
Poetry for the Winter Season
THE START OF WINTER: Winter at Home - John Betjeman (1906 - 1984)
from The Village Curate - James Hurdis (1763 - 1801)
The Burning Of The Leaves - Laurence Binyon and Elizabeth Jennings (1926 - 2001)
The Smell Of Chrysanthemums - W. B. Yeats (1865 - 1939)
The Wild Swans At Coole - W. B. Yeats
from The Task: The Winter Evening - William Cowper (1731 - 1800)
A Shropshire Lad XXXI - A. E. Housman (1859 - 1936)
No! - Thomas Hood (1799 - 1845)
Hot Cake - Shu Hui (A.D. 265–306) Translated Arthur Waley
Signs of Winter - John Clare (1793 - 1864)
November - John Clare
Winter Stores - Charlotte Bronte (1816 - 1855)
Now Winter Nights - Thomas Campion (1567 - 1620)
from The Eclipse Of The Moon - Lu T'ung (835)
WINTER FIRES: The Ways of the Wood - Anon
from The Window - Alfred Tennyson (1809 - 1892)
When You Are Old - W. B. Yeats
Old Song - Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883)
Armies In The Fire - Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894)
Logs On The Hearth: A Memory Of A Sister - Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928)
CHILDREN IN WINTER: Picture Books In Winter - Robert Louis Stevenson
from Songs For the Nursery 1805 - Anon
From January - John Clare
Snow - Edward Thomas (1878 - 1917)
King John's Christmas - A. A. Milne (1882 - 1956)
The Trouble With Snowmen - Roger McGough (1937 - )
Winter-Time - Robert Louis Stevenson
DEEP WINTER: Winter (from Love's Labour's Lost V, ii) - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616)
Inscription For An Old Bed - William Morris (1834 - 1896)
Snow In The Suburbs - Thomas Hardy
Travelling In The Mountains - Tu Mu (805 - 59)
Frost At Midnight - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
London Snow - Robert Bridges (1844 - 1930)
WINTER HARDSHIPS: Winter, Plague And Pestilence - Thomas Nashe (1567 - 1601)
Winter Complaint - Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971)
The Farm Womans Winter - Thomas Hardy
ROMANCING THE WINTER: from Epicurean Reminiscences Of A Sentimentalist - Thomas Hood
THE START OF WINTER: Winter at Home - John Betjeman (1906 - 1984)