Read by John Nettles
Recorded by Jack Arnold 
Words by Jan Noble

https://reynardpoem.com

REYNARD | Read by John Nettles

Read by John Nettles
Recorded by Jack Arnold 
Words by Jan Noble

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REYNARD [ INTRO ONLY ] Read by John Nettles

SHELLEY 200 [ PART ONE ]

Body 115 is a mini verse-drama, a tale of inner and outer journeys in explicit homage to Dante’s Divine Comedy written and performed by poet Jan Noble. 

From the rain-washed, subterranean underworld of Kings Cross, ‘Body 115’ - the long unidentified victim of the 1987 fire - becomes Virgil to Noble’s Dante. A voyage of discovery and recovery, embracing decay and gentrification, a sense of place and the need to escape. Invoking ancient rebellion and civil strife, through London runnels to picturesque Kent, we meet Marlowe at Millwall and Keats at Gravesend. Led from the limbo realm of a Calais refugee camp to the slumbering battlefields of Flanders, we travel to Paris where poet-ghosts of yesteryear throng the backstreets of Montparnasse. And at last, to Milan, in a season of wet weather, we arrive to find that more than just the rain awaits. 

This one hour, one person show is an energetic blend of theatre and richly lyrical poetry. A rhapsodic paean to the trammelling ecstasy of loss. A trans-European odyssey turned safari of the soul.

Journey Works

BODY 115 [ ACT ONE ]

My Name Is Swan

MY NAME IS SWAN

For Don…

MY NAME IS SWAN - BBC Radio Extract

A work in progress...

Selected lyrics from

THE FAT MAN IN HISTORY

a libretto by Jan Noble

Based on the short story by Peter Carey

jannoble.co.uk/fatman/

1. Between The Beef and The Bone
2. There Are Times
3. Blame The Day

Selected Lyrics From Fat Man

Horizon

CE SOIR DANS LA RUE DES DEUX GARE

Selected Readings: ICA, London | The Nuyorican Poets Cafe, New York | Teatro Filodrammatici, Milan | Teatrino Di Palazzo Grassi, Venice. Broadcasts: Channel 4, BBC Radio, ITV. 2020 Commissions: Kent Medway Museums | Heritage Lab | The Deutscher Chor London. Guest Lecturer: Università degli Studi di Milano | UCL. Film: My Name Is Swan, premiered at the Curzon, Aldgate, London [with support from the Arts Council England & the East End Film Festival] Featured Artist: Poetry on The Lake, Italy [with Carol Ann Duffy] | Stoke Newington Literary Festival [with Irvine Welsh] | Turner Contemporary, Margate | Bowery Poetry Club, New York.

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