Name: Snail by Ted Hughes by Anton Jarvis
Duration: 41 s
Description: More Ted Hughes poems here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/ted-hughes

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

More Ted Hughes poems here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/ted-hughes

Snail by Ted Hughes

Broadcast on BBC Essex 25.12.2024
Thousands of miles from Essex on the Western Australian coast near Perth is Waikiki. Matt and Mary Wren moved here from Canewdon in south Essex more than a decade ago. They have been talking to our former colleague Anton Jarvis who now lives in Sydney on Australia’s east coast…
More Xmas radio features here: soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/xmas-audio-features

2024 XMAS WA Ex-Pats (A+B)

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

Reflecting back on the year about to end as a new year beckons.
Snow poems here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/snow

The Old Year by John Clare

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.

Snail by Ted Hughes

Anton Jarvis

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