Name: 'The Last One' by W.S. Merwin by Motherhawk Archives
Duration: 3 min 16 s
Description: This recording of W.S. Merwin reading his poem 'The Last One', taken from his anthology 'The Lice' (1977 copyright W.S. Merwin), seems to exist nowhere on the internet for others to hear, and, to be honest, I can't quite remember how I came by it. His reading is as dark and electric as the poem itself.

Thank you for posting this. He is one of the great living poets and this is one of my favorites.

Fenella Fielding sits in for Simon McKay. In place of his regular Post Punk Britain, Fenella presents PRE-Punk Britain - playing short snappy, no nonsense songs from the 60s:
1.	Action - Wasn’t It You
2.	Manfred Mann - Pretty Flamingo
3.	Hollies – Bus Stop
4.	Johnny Kidd & The Pirates - Shakin’
5.	Who - I Can’t Explain
6.	Beatles - She’s A Woman
7.	Dave Clark Five – Maze of Love
8.	Animals - Don’t Bring Me Down (Ed Sullivan 1966)
9.	Jimi Hendrix - Stone Free
10.	Dusty Springfield - What’s It Gonna Be
11.	Georgie Fame - Yeh Yeh
12.	David Bowie - I Can’t Help Thinking About Me
13.	Kinks – You Really Got Me
14.	Rolling Stones – 19th Nervous Breakdown
15.	Sandie Shaw - Hide All Emotion
16.	Small Faces - All Or Nothing
17.	Yardbirds - He’s Always There
18.	Spencer Davis Group - Keep On Running (1965)
19.	Zombies - Is This The Dream
(Originally broadcast on Break London Radio 16/07/16)
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Fenella Fielding presents Pre-Punk Britain (60s British bands)

This recording of W.S. Merwin reading his poem 'The Last One', taken from his anthology 'The Lice' (1977 copyright W.S. Merwin), seems to exist nowhere on the internet for others to hear, and, to be honest, I can't quite remember how I came by it. His reading is as dark and electric as the poem itself.

'The Last One' by W.S. Merwin

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