A reading of the Philip Larkinpoem 'Sunny Prestatyn' made for the Tiny In All That Air podcast: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1PvWnGWQUMt3TT7Nbox8T0?si=QawPlRfSQOWfsggpzdglEQ&dl_branch=1

Sunny Prestatyn

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Along the Road

Time You Old Gypsy Man

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Meditation of the Old Fisherman

This is a commission undertaken as a thank you to our friends, the Turners for their support. A piece of music for one of their favourite poems, Wallace Stevens '13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird'.

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45236/thirteen-ways-of-looking-at-a-blackbird

13 BLACKBIRDS

A poem by Wes Finch.
Music by Ben Haines.
Read by John Beynon.

Hirundo Rustica

Ever the summer captains,
Sailing the high brisk air.
Northering and returning,
Nesting there

Memory blood navigation,
Honing right in on the place.
Yesteryears feathers still lining,
With mud and grass 

Speckled and glossy white brood stones,
crack and let summer’s light in.
New gaping and hungry whale mouths.
And again it begins.

The constant and graceful darting
in the bounty of ocean air,
fishing and drinking on the wing 
in the sun’s loving glare

Each time you enter the barn,
ducking upon the threshold.
As if those air cutting acrobats
should care

for you, loping slaves to gravity. 
You slow, giant, land-lubbing thing.
Smiling and marvelling joyfully
at your re-visiting.

Ever The Summer Captains

Featuring poems by Shirley Hoyle and Clive Irwin about their home, the village of Moreton Morrell in Warwickshire.
Also featuring the Moreton Morrell village choir, conducted by Nicola Atkins.
This piece was part of project devised with Live & Local Rural Touring during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic.

Moreton Morrell

This poem, by David Edwards of Moreton Morrell describes the local pub in the village, The Black Horse and its regulars.
Music and sounds are provided by The Mechanicals Band.
This is the second piece to come out of a collaboration between the band and the village and was supported by Live & Local Rural Touring.

The Black Horse (Moreton Morrell)

Our album 'Exit, Pursued by Bear' is available on CD, iTunes and Spotify etc. Selected tracks here.

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