Name: 591 The Famous Tay Whale by William McGonagall, read by Nicholas Ralph by Samuel West #PandemicPoems
Duration: 9 min 31 s
Description: Tuesday 29th September 2020. Day 194 of Pandemic Poems

Thank you for introducing me to the worst English- language poet! 😂

Oh how incredibly funny!  Thank you, Mr. West, for your fabulous, hilarious, droll, serious introduction to poet MCGonagall, for us, the listeners unacquainted with his works. An American listener, who was introduced to #PandemicPoem from your interview on Masterpiece Studio.  Hearing Nicholas Ralph read this one...unmatched for an American ear unaccustomed to hearing Scots speech. A delight from start to finish. Still laughing here..

Sunday 27th September 2020. Day 192 of Pandemic Poems

586 The Painter by John Ashbery

587 The Monument by Elizabeth Bishop, read by Jane Slavin

588 The Death Of Allegory by Billy Collins

Monday 28th September 2020. Day 193 of Pandemic Poems

589 The Life that I Have by Leo Marks

590 Before the Birth of One of Her Children by Anne Bradstreet, read by Emma Fielding

Tuesday 29th September 2020. Day 194 of Pandemic Poems

591 The Famous Tay Whale by William McGonagall, read by Nicholas Ralph

Tuesday 29th September 2020. Day 194 of Pandemic Poems

Illustration by Marguerite Davis, from Tirra Lirra : Rhymes Old and New (1932)

592 Kindness To Animals by Laura E Richards

593 Ant And Elephant by Spike Milligan

Wednesday 30th September 2020. Day 195 of Pandemic Poems

594 Morfudd fel yr Haul (Morfudd like the Sun) by Dafydd Ap Gwilym, read by Ioan Gruffudd

595 Herbst (Autumn) by Rainer Maria Rilke, read by Moritz Kiermeier and Mark Edel-Hunt

596 Den halvfärdiga himlen (The half-finished heaven) by Tomas Tranströmer, read by Michaela Caunter

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

591 The Famous Tay Whale by William McGonagall, read by Nicholas Ralph

Samuel West #PandemicPoems

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