Ruth Padel reads "Time To Fly", a poem on migration from her collection THE MARA CROSSING, published by Chatto & Windus.

Ruth Padel — Time To Fly

Katrina Porteous reads an excerpt from "The Wund an' the Wetter" (Iron Press, 1999). With piper Chris Ormston.

Katrina Porteous w. Chris Ormston — from The Wund an' The Wetter

Hanna Tuulikki/Nalle: Songthrush (from Wilder Shores of Love, Alt Vinyl, 2010)
This song was written the day after an encounter with one in the woods near my folks’ home in Sussex. Whilst the verse starts akin to a familiar British folk song, the chorus begins to imitate the actual song of the Songthrush, a bird that is notorious for singing in couplets. The lyrics play with the idea of the bird as a poet, who with his voice and words can seduce a lady and give the answer to her riddle, a common theme in folk stories where a bird and rosebush or bush image is used to symbolise sexual union.

Hanna Tuulikki/Nalle — Songthrush

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