You are a genius reader. How fitting that your mother read this years ago, for Decca Classics. What an amazing recording as well!

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Me reading W.H. Auden's poem "Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone"  



W.H. Auden - Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone

November 29, 1994, The New School. From the Academy Audio Archive.

James Fenton: "In Paris With You" (with intro)

Wednesday 10th June 2020. Day 84 of Pandemic Poems

266 The Unknown Citizen by WH Auden

Monday 3rd August 2020. Day 138 of Pandemic Poems

425 Hinterhof by James Fenton, read by Nancy Carroll

Thursday August 27th 2020. Day 161 of Pandemic Poems

497 A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford by Derek Mahon, read by Jonjo O'Neill

Reproduced by kind permission of the author

Friday August 28th 2020. Day 162 of Pandemic Poems

500 Oh I Wish I'd Looked After Me Teeth by Pam Ayres

Text of the poem: http://knarf.english.upenn.edu/Milton/pl9.html

Illustration by William Blake: Eve Tempted by the Serpent, 1799

Friday August 28th 2020. Day 162 of Pandemic Poems

501 The Temptation of Eve, from Paradise Lost Book IX (l. 494 - 784) by John Milton

Saturday August 29th 2020. Day 163 of Pandemic Poems

502 Norfolk by John Betjeman

503 The Brook by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, read by Indira Varma

504 Ha'nacker Mill by Hilaire Belloc

From the 1939 Marx Brothers film At The Circus (MGM)

Sunday August 30th 2020. Day 164 of Pandemic Poems

505 Lydia The Tattooed Lady; lyrics by Yip Harburg

Sunday August 30th 2020. Day 164 of Pandemic Poems

506 Blackberry-Picking by Seamus Heaney, read by Jonjo O'Neill

507 Home by Warsan Shire, read by Amanda Abbington

Monday August 31st 2020. Day 165 of Pandemic Poems

509 Postscript: For Gweno by Alun Lewis, read by Ioan Gruffudd

510 The Imperfect Lover by Siegfried Sassoon

More Auden poems here: https://soundcloud.com/anton-jarvis-206182017/sets/auden

Love's A Little Boy by W.H. Auden

Actor and sometimes director. Searchable list of poems: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1CCjGqAU4uz0dwo7X8e3MBnGorHOT0kYeUDYxLwEKeU4/htmlview#gid=0

501 The Temptation of Eve, from Paradise Lost Book IX (l. 494 - 784) by John Milton

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