PAM AYRES
Ayres on the Air: Series 3 Pam Ayres [ AudioGO Limited / 2 CD - released 8/Oct/2009 ] A third selection of verses, stories and sketches from the much-loved poet and comedian Pam Ayres. |
PHILIP GLASS
Book Of Longing: A Song Cycle based on the Poetry and Images of Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen (spoken text) Dominique Plaisant (soprano) Tara Hugo (mezzo) Will Erat (tenor) Daniel Keeling (bass-baritone) Philip Glass (keyboard) [ Orange Mountain Music / 2 CD - released 25/Mar/2008 ] "For me, this work is both a departure from past work and a fulfillment of an artistic dream." -Philip Glass |
Norman Meehan / Bill Manhire
Buddhist Rain [ Rattle Records / CD - released 4/Oct/2010 ] Award-winning poet, Bill Manhire, and composer/pianist Norman Meehan have collaborated to create the first settings of Bill Manhire's poetry. |
VARIOUS POETS
Classic Poems For Boys Anton Lesser, Roy McMillan, Benjamin Soames [ Naxos Audiobooks / CD - released 2/Jul/2012 ] Classic Poems for Boys comprises a delightfully varied set of poems for 5-10-year olds. From rousing favourites like Felicia Dorothea Hemans's Casabianca and John Keats's A Song About Myself, to dreamy, thoughtful poems by Rudyard Kipling and Henry... |
VARIOUS POETS
Classic Poems For Girls Roy McMillan, Laura Paton, Anne-Marie Piazza [ Naxos Audiobooks / CD - released 2/Jul/2012 ] Classic Poems for Girls is a collection of over 25 funny, whimsical and moving poems for 5-10-year olds, designed to fuel the imagination. From the adventures of the Jumblies, who sail away in a sieve, to the sticky end of a girl named Matilda, to... |
DYLAN THOMAS
Dylan Thomas reads his own poetry (Incls 'Fern Hill: Lament' & 'Child's Christmas in Wales') Dylan Thomas [ ALTO / CD - released 20/Jan/2010 ] |
Dylan Thomas
Dylan Thomas Reads Under Milk Wood [ ALTO / 2 CD - released 19/Apr/2010 ] "Ever since its first iconic BBC broadcast in 1954, Under Milk Wood has shone a definitive, iconic and humorous light on small-town communities... |
VARIOUS AUTHORS
Favourite Poems for Children (unabridged) Anton Lesser, Roy McMillan, Rachel Bavidge [ Naxos Audiobooks / CD - released 6/Dec/2010 ] Readers such as Anton Lesser, Simon Russell-Beale and Timothy West bring the lines beautifully to life and make this an ideal introduction to some of the best-loved children's poetry. |
EMILY DICKINSON
Great Poets - Emily Dickinson Read by Teresa Gallagher [ Naxos Audiobooks / CD - released 28/Jan/2008 ] Born in Massachusetts in 1830, Emily Dickinson composed over 1770 poems; but apart from her closest friends, no-one knew she was writing at all. Only after her death was her astonishing output discovered and published. A reclusive figure for much of... |
MATTHEW ARNOLD
The Great Poets: Matthew Arnold Read by Jonathan Keeble [ Naxos Audiobooks / CD - released 18/Aug/2017 ] Considered the bridge between romanticism and modernism, Matthew Arnold wrote verse that is simple, unadorned and straightforward. From the hypnotic and beautiful lines of Dover Beach to the pastoral narrative of The Scholar Gipsy, Arnold cast a gaze... |
BLAKE / KEATS / WORDSWORTH / SHELLEY / BYRON / CLARE / COLERIDGE
Great Poets of the Romantic Age Read by Michael Sheen [ Naxos / 2 CD - released 24/Oct/2000 ] 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… The Peasant Poet 'All good poetry,' wrote Wordsworth, 'is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings'... |
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES
The Great Poets: Oliver Wendell Holmes Peter Marinker (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / CD - released 20/Apr/2008 ] The American poet, doctor, teacher, hymn writer, lecturer and novelist Oliver Wendell Holmes was one of the illustrious East Coast Brahmins - the Fireside Poets who included Longfellow, Whittier and Bryant. He was immensely popular in his own time,... |
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY
The Great Poets: Percy Bysshe Shelley Bertie Carvel (narrator) [ Naxos Audiobooks / CD - released 20/Apr/2008 ] Idealist, atheist, outcast, political radical and, of course, poet-Percy Bysshe Shelley was, in many ways, the epitome of the Romantic artist. His poetry was an outlet for his passionately-held and highly unpopular beliefs; beliefs which resulted... |
WILLIAM BLAKE
Great Poets - William Blake Robert Glenister / Michael Maloney / Stephen Critchlow. [ Naxos Audiobooks / CD - released 2/Jul/2007 ] Naxos AudioBooks begins its new series of Great Poets-represented by their most popular poems on one CD-with William Blake, whose 250th anniversary of birth falls this year. This CD contains all of his most popular works-Tyger, the Auguries of ... |
SHAKESPEARE
Great Shakespeare Speeches Lawrence Olivier / John Gielgud / Marlon Brando / Alec Guinness / Arnold Moss [ Regis / CD - released 28/Nov/2007 ] He could speak William Shakespeare's lines as naturally as if he were "actually thinking them", said English playwright Charles C. Bennett, who met Laurence Olivier in 1927. One of Olivier's earliest successes as a Shakespearean actor on the London... |
WILFRED OWEN / CHRISTINA ROSSSETTI / YEATS / TENNYSON / BROOKES
Poems of War and Remembrance Dean Lennox Kelly, Jenny Agutter, Michael Jayston, Rupert Holliday Evans [ AudioGO Limited / CD - released 7/Jun/2012 ] An anthology of over 60 classic poems of war and remembrance. The horrors of war have prompted countless soldiers and civilians to compose poetry, whether to denounce needless slaughter, celebrate courage or honour the dead. This collection contains... |
JOHN DONNE
John Donne Love Poetry, Meditations and Sermons Richard Burton / Herbert Marshall [ Forum / CD - released 3/Dec/2012 ] The inimitable voice of Richard Burton recites the love poem of John Donne. Herbert Marshall presents a selection of Donne's meditations and sermons. |
Norman Meehan / Bill Manhire / Hannah Griffin
Making Baby Float [ Rattle Records / 2 CD/DVD - released 5/Dec/2011 ] A performance that captures the natural essence of the material, and the vital energy of a live musical event. The DVD is beautifully shot and includes tracks additional to those selected for the CD. |
Jenny Bornholdt
New Zealand Poets [ Jayrem Records New Zealand / CD - released 9/Aug/2008 ] Jenny Bornholdt has written seven books of poetry, including a selected poems "Miss New Zealand" (VUW,1997)... |
Michele Leggott
New Zealand Poets [ CD - released 15/Jul/2009 ] |