Name: On the Edge by Jane McCulloch by Anton Jarvis
Duration: 54 s
Description: Mindfulness poems of calm and comfort here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/mindfulness

A haiku for each of the 12 months.
Documentary series about belonging here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/a-sense-of-place

A Haiku Yearbook by Anthony Thwaite

A classic and evocative depiction of spring's abundant yellow blooms.
POET PLAYLIST LINKS:
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/auden
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/william-blake
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/gillian-clarke
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/e-e-cummings
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/dickinson
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/hsc-t-s-eliot
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/robert-frost
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/thomas-hardy
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/ted-hughes
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/keats
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/philip-larkin
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/william-shakespeare
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/wordsworth
https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/w-b-yeats

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud ('Daffodils') by William Wordsworth

Reflecting back on the previous year just passed and forward to the new year to come. From his 'Benedictus' book.
Snow poems here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/snow

At the End of the Year by John O'Donohue

Reflecting positively on what the next year could bring.
Snow poems here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/snow

Promise by Jackie Kay

An audio/radio postcard for BBC Essex, broadcast shortly after midnight (AEST) on New Year's Day 2023, describing the iconic firework display.
More Xmas/New Year audio features here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/xmas-audio-features

2022 NYE Sydney Fireworks

Ambulanceman George Brazier remembered the horror of comforting survivors; 12 year-old Shirley Hollingberry (Thomas) spoke of her father's desperate search for her and her sister at a rescue centre; Iris Collier recalled the orphaned baby of a neighbour who survived on the waves.
Documentary telling the incredible story of that night here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/bbc-essex-the-great-tide-2003?in=anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/1953floods
More archive radio features here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/1953floods

53 Floods Canvey 3 Stories

Mindfulness poems of calm and comfort here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/mindfulness

On the Edge by Jane McCulloch

More witty poems here: soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/witty

A Supermarket in California by Allen Ginsberg

More poems of reflection here: soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/reflections-on-life

Love after Love by Derek Walcott

My radio documentary about homelessness here: soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/outcasts

A Winter Night by Sara Teasdale

More positive poems of calm and comfort here: soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/mindfulness

To Laugh Often and Much by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ex-BBC Broadcaster readings of poetry & stories + archive radio/audio features. PLEASE SHARE LINKS with others. 
I’m a self-confessed sound, speech and language nerd.

On the Edge by Jane McCulloch

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