POETRY FOR THE WINTER SEASON

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Poetry for the Winter Season (more info)
Sandra Douglas Weir, reader
Hazel Pardon, reader
James Barraclough, reader
Roger McGough, reader
Liz Farmer, reader
Benjamin Zephaniah, reader
Tim Guilding, reader
Christine Dimbleby, reader
James Murphy, reader
David Pepper, reader
Ron Bloomfield, reader
Valerie Lennie, reader


1. THE START OF WINTER: Winter at Home - John Betjeman (1906 - 1984) - 07:54
2. from The Village Curate - James Hurdis (1763 - 1801) - 03:44
3. The Burning Of The Leaves - Laurence Binyon and Elizabeth Jennings (1926 - 2001) - 01:57
4. The Smell Of Chrysanthemums - W.B. Yeats (1865 - 1939) - 01:41
5. The Wild Swans At Coole - W. B. Yeats - 01:39
6. from The Task: The Winter Evening - William Cowper (1731 - 1800) - 05:28
7. A Shropshire Lad XXXI - A. E. Housman (1859 - 1936) - 01:20
8. No! - Thomas Hood (1799 - 1845) - 01:34
9. Hot Cake - Shu Hui (A.D. 265–306) Translated Arthur Waley - 01:18
10. Signs of Winter - John Clare (1793 - 1864) - 01:12
11. November - John Clare - 04:43
12. Winter Stores - Charlotte Brontë (1816 - 1855) - 02:48
13. Now Winter Nights - Thomas Campion (1567 - 1620) - 01:09
14. from The Eclipse Of The Moon - Lu T'ung (835) - 02:51
15. WINTER FIRES: The Ways of the Wood - Anon - 01:56
16. from The Window - Alfred Tennyson (1809 - 1892) - 01:02
17. When You Are Old - W. B. Yeats - 01:02
18. Old Song - Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883) - 02:19
19. Armies In The Fire - Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894) - 01:07
20. Logs On The Hearth: A Memory Of A Sister - Thomas Hardy (1840 - 1928) - 01:00
21. CHILDREN IN WINTER: Picture Books In Winter - Robert Louis Stevenson - 01:23
22. from Songs For the Nursery 1805 - Anon - 00:27
23. From January - John Clare - 07:23
24. Snow - Edward Thomas (1878 - 1917) - 00:36
25. King John's Christmas - A. A. Milne (1882 - 1956) - 03:51
26. The Trouble With Snowmen - Roger McGough (1937 - ) - 00:49
27. Winter-Time - Robert Louis Stevenson - 01:12
28. DEEP WINTER: Winter (from Love's Labour's Lost V,ii) - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) - 01:41
29. Inscription For An Old Bed - William Morris (1834 - 1896) - 01:07
30. Snow In The Suburbs - Thomas Hardy - 01:30

Poetry for the Winter Season (more info)
Sandra Douglas Weir, reader
Hazel Pardon, reader
James Barraclough, reader
Roger McGough, reader
Liz Farmer, reader
Benjamin Zephaniah, reader
Tim Guilding, reader
Christine Dimbleby, reader
James Murphy, reader
David Pepper, reader
Ron Bloomfield, reader
Valerie Lennie, reader


1. Travelling In The Mountains - Tu Mu (805 - 59) - 00:56
2. Frost At Midnight - Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 04:30
3. London Snow - Robert Bridges (1844 - 1930) - 02:42
4. WINTER HARDSHIPS: Winter, Plague And Pestilence - Thomas Nashe (1567 - 1601) - 01:50
5. Winter Complaint - Ogden Nash (1902 - 1971) - 01:56
6. The Farm Womans Winter - Thomas Hardy - 01:03
7. ROMANCING THE WINTER: from Epicurean Reminiscences Of A Sentimentalist - Thomas Hood - 03:33
8. Silent Is The House - Emily Brontë (1818 - 1848) - 01:54
9. The Cold Earth Slept Below - Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792 - 1822) - 01:34
10. Chloris In The Snow - William Strode (1602 - 1645) - 00:44
11. The Eve Of St Agnes - John Keats (1795 - 1821) - 22:12
12. A Glee For Winter - Alfred Domett (1811 - 1887) - 01:14
13. CHRISTMAS TIME: In The Bleak Midwinter - Christina Rossetti (1830 - 1894) - 02:24
14. The Old Shepherds - Eleanor Farjeon (1881 - 1965) - 00:53
15. The Night Before Christmas - Clement Moore (1779 - 1863) - 03:29
16. from Marmion - Sir Walter Scott (1771 - 1832) - 04:02
17. Talking Turkeys - Benjamin Zephaniah (1958 - ) - 01:52
18. The Twelve Days of Christmas…Or Too Much Of A Good Thing - Anon - 01:54
19. NEW YEAR: New Year Snow - E. Nesbit (1858 - 1924) - 01:32
20. The Old Year - John Clare - 01:12
21. To The Nightingale Which The Author Heard Sing On New Year's Day - William Cowper - 01:18
22. The New Year - edward Thomas - 01:18
23. Auld Lang Syne - Robert Burns (1759 - 1796) - 01:50
24. THE END OF WINTER: I Heard A Bird Sing - Oliver Herford (1863 - 1935) - 01:07
25. An Epitaph On A Robin Redbreast - Samuel Rogers (1763 - 1855) - 00:53
26. The Lover In Winter Plaineth For The Spring - Anon - 00:27
27. At Candlemas - Charles Causley (1917 - 2003) - 00:58
28. Ceremonies For Candlemas Eve - Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674) - 01:14
29. The Darkling Thrush - Thomas Hardy - 01:27
30. The Fight Of The Year - Roger McGough - 01:18

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