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Audiobooks Narrated by Shyama Perera
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"'A dime a dozen' as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English 'cheap as chips' but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit 'A Rhyme a Dozen' as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears.
1 - A Rhyme A Dozen - 12 Poems, 12 Poets, 1 Topic - Travel - An Introduction
2 - Departure by Edna St Vincent Millay
3 - I Go on Dreaming of Paths by Antonio Machado
4 - Travel by Robert Louis Stevenson
5 - I Travell'd Among Unknown Men by William Wordsworth
6 - In the Train and At Versailles by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
7 - The Night Journey by Rupert Brooke
8 - The Golden Journey to Samarkand by James Elroy Flecker
9 - Mandalay by Rudyard Kipling
10 - I Write of That Journey by Mirabai
11 - Sailing Beyond Seas by Jean Ingelow
12 - Song of the Open Road by Walt Whitman
13 - The Journey by Tagore"
"‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears.1 - A Rhyme a Dozen - 12 Poets, 12 Poems, 1 Topic. Lesbian Love2 - Wild Nights, Wild Nights by Emily Dickinson3 - The Touch by Renee Vivien4 - Hands and Lips by Radclyffe Hall5 - For the Courtesan Ch'ing Lin by Wu Zao6 - Love by by Edith Sodergran7 - I Can Give Myself To Her by Akiko Yosano8 - My Heart is Lame by Charlotte Mew9 - If You Could Come by Katharine Lee Bates10 - My Divine Lysis by Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz11 - I Have Not Had One Word From Her by Sappho12 - L'Amitie, To Mrs M. Awbrey by Katherine Phillips13 - A Valentine by Matilda Betham Edwards"
"Writing poetry always seems to be something we learn at school, usually beginning with a couplet of child-like rhyme that brings gales of laughter. Later it may be agonising over a verse or two attempting to rhapsodise on love and then the years roll on with only an occasional desire to return. In this volume we put together wordsmiths of the highest caliber as they write on Poets themselves. Many of the poems provide valuable insights on how other poets are seen by their peers. Some are deeply personal others are abstract. Whether they speak at the celebration of a birth or the knowing tragedy of entering a slaughterous battle these poets take us into new uncharted territories revealing their inner selves in raw and tender ways. Yeats, Flecker, Benet, Yeats, Dickinson, Coleridge, Millay, Levy, Gurney are but a few of their number who speak with the clarity, the eloquence and the truth that only a poet can know….but all can share. 01 - Poets on Poets - An Introduction02 - A Caution to Poets by Matthew Arnold03 - To a Poet by Emily Hickey04 - To a Poet by Alice Meynell05 - To a Poet by Claude McKay06 - To Poets by Charles Sorley07 - The Poet by Aleksandr Pushkin08 - The Poet by Radclyffe Hall09 - The Poet by Paul Laurence Dunbar10 - The Poet to Nature by Alice Meynell11 - Sonnet VII - Sweet Poet of the Woods by Charlotte Smith12 - To John Keats, Poet, At Spring Time by Countee Cullen13 - False Poets and True (To Wordsworth) by Thomas Hood14 - On Dryden by Christopher Caudwell15 - On Poet-Ape by Ben Jonson16 - On the Morals of Poets by Richard Le Gallienne17 - The Poets by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow18 - The Toast by Ernest Rhys19 - A Minor Poet by Stephen Vincent Benet20 - To Alex Smith, the Glasgow Poet by George Meredith21 - The Peasant Poet by John Clare22 - London Poets by Amy Levy23 - Negro Poets by Charles Bertram Johnson24 - A Poet's Hope by Ambrose Bierce25 - The Poet's Portion by Thomas Hood26 - Poets by Khalil Gibran27 - The Poet's Apology by Aristophanes28 - A Tale of the Miser and His Poet by Anne Kingsmill Finch29 - The Poet, the Oyster and Sensitive Plant by William Cowper30 - The Bad Season Makes the Poet Sad by Robert Herrick31 - Besides The Autumn Poets Sing by Emily Dickinson32 - A Poet of One Mood by Alice Meynell33 - Fancy in Nubibus or The Poet in the Clouds by Samuel Taylor Coleridge34 - The Poet Pleads with the Elemental Powers by W B Yeats35 - Singers To Come by Alice Meynell36 - To a Poet a Thousand Years Hence by James Elroy Flecker37 - The Young Poet by James Elroy Flecker38 - Portrait of the Author by William Carlos Williams39 - The Modern Poet - A Song of Derivations by Alice Meynell40 - The Poet to His Childhood by Alice Meynell37 - A Poet's Father by Ambrose Bierce42 - A Poet's Welcome To His Love Begotten Daughter by Robert Burns43 - A Poet to His Baby Son by James Weldon Johnson44 - Mother and Poet by Elizabeth Barrett Browning45 - The Martyr Poets - Did Not Tell by Emily Dickinson46 - Trench Poets by Edgell Rickword47 - England's Poet by Laurence Binyon48 - A Poet Unknown by Ernest Rhys49 - To the Poet Before Battle by Ivor Gurney50 - The Poets Are Waiting by Harold Munro51 - Lament for the Poets, 1916 by Francis Ledwidge52 - The Poet's Knowledge by Raymond Chandler53 - These Things That Poets Said by Edward Thomas54 - This Was A Poet - It Is That by Emily Dickinson55 - The Old Poet by Amy Levy56 - The Old Poet by James Elroy Flecker57 - The Poet to Death by Sarojini Naidu58 - A Poet's Dying Hymn by Grace Aguilar59 - The Poet's Death by John Clare60 - To A Dead Poet by Amy Levy61 - At a Poet's Grave by Francis Ledwidge62 - To the Memory of My Beloved Master William Shakespeare and What He hath Left Us by Ben Jonson63 - The Poet and His Book by Edna St Vincent Millay64 - The Passionate Reader to His Poet by Richard Le Gallienne"
"The eighth month of the Gregorian calendar brings summer to a close, at least on our calendars. Nature will continue with her wise and infinite ways regardless of our need to keep a count of where we expect her to be. Summer with its heat, its holidays has a lung-bursting capacity to energise our thoughts, our ambitions and our contentment.Our classic poets, including Phyllis Wheatley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Emily Jane Bronte, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Sara Teasdale and a wealth of others, mirror these thoughts and desires in ways that express what the human condition really is; a landscape of feelings and emotions, of friendship and family, of love and an ever-changing world that we call our own."
"Katherine was born on the 14th October 1888 into a prominent family in Wellington, New Zealand, the middle child of five.A gifted celloist, at one point she thought she might take it up professionally but writing gradually began to move to the forefront of her interests. Her first writings were published at an early age in school magazines.At 19 Katherine left for England where she met and befriended the modernist writers D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf amongst others. She then travelled to Europe before returning to New Zealand. There she began to write the short stories that she would later become so famous for. Her stories often focus on moments of disruption and frequently open rather abruptly. There was another less-heralded side to Katherine's writings; that of poetry. Her verse certainly reflects much of the themes of her life and interests. Many poems are beautiful, thoughtful, tender and observant works on the human condition. Some though seem out of kilter for so great a talent, almost child-like in form and content. But taken as yet another facet of her work they accomplish much in helping us to understand her.By 1908 she had returned to London and to a rather more bohemian lifestyle. Life was to be lived and enjoyed. A passionate affair resulted in her becoming pregnant and in her being married off to an older man. But she left him the same evening with the marriage unconsummated. She was then to miscarry and be cut out of her mother's will (allegedly because of her lesbianism).In 1911 she was to start a relationship with John Middleton Murry, a magazine editor, and although it was volatile he supported her work and she wrote some of her best stories.During the First World War Mansfield contracted extrapulmonary tuberculosis, which rendered any return or visit to New Zealand impossible and led to her death at the tender age of 34 on 9th January 1923 in Fontainebleau, France.1 - The Poetry of Katherine Mansfield - An Introduction2 - A Fine Day by Katherine Mansfield3 - Very Early Spring by Katherine Mansfield4 - Out in the Garden by Katherine Mansfield5 - Spring Wind In London by Katherine Mansfield6 - Now I Am A Plant, A Weed by Katherine Mansfield7 - When I Was A Bird by Katherine Mansfield8 - The Wounded Bird by Katherine Mansfield9 - Across the Red Sky by Katherine Mansfield10 - Voices of the Air by Katherine Mansfield11 - Autumn Song by Katherine Mansfield12 - Winter Song by Katherine Mansfield13 - There is a Solemn Wind Tonight by Katherine Mansfield14 - The Storm by Katherine Mansfield15 - Night Scented Stock by Katherine Mansfield16 - Evening Song of the Thoughtful Child by Katherine Mansfield17 - The Town Between the Hills by Katherine Mansfield18 - The Candle by Katherine Mansfield19 - Little Girl's Prayer by Katherine Mansfield20 - A Little Boy's Dream by Katherine Mansfield21 - To LHB by Katherine Mansfield22 - A Day in Bed by Katherine Mansfield23 - A Few Rules For Beginners by Katherine Mansfield24 - Fairy Tale by Katherine Mansfield25 - Camomile Tea by Katherine Mansfield26 - The Earth Child in the Grass by Katherine Mansfield27 - There Was a Child Once by Katherine Mansfield28 - Sanary by Katherine Mansfield29 - The Sea Child by Katherine Mansfield30 - Sea Song by Katherine Mansfield31 - Sea by Katherine Mansfield32 - The Awakening River by Katherine Mansfield33 - Waves by Katherine Mansfield34 - The Opal Dream Cave by Katherine Mansfield35 - In the Rangitaki Valley by Katherine Mansfield36 - Villa Pauline by Katherine Mansfield37 - Butterfly Laughter by Katherine Mansfield38 - The Gulf by Katherine Mansfield39 - Deaf House Agent by Katherine Mansfield40 - Opposites by Katherine Mansfield41 - Country Women by Katherine Mansfield42 - The Arabian Shawl by Katherine Mansfield43 - Covering Wings by Katherine Mansfield44 - Sorrowing Love by Katherine Mansfield45 - The Meeting by Katherine Mansfield46 - The Quarrel by Katherine Mansfield47 - A Joyful Song of Five by Katherine Mansfield48 - Sleeping Together by Katherine Mansfield49 - Loneliness by Katherine Mansfield50 - A New Hymn by Katherine Mansfield51 - Stars by Katharine Mansfield52 - To God the Father by Katherine Mansfield"
"Tagore was a true Renaissance man, distinguishing himself as a gifted philosopher, social and political reformer as well as a popular author in all literary genres. His most famous poem, extracts of which are recorded here, is Gitanjali which earned him the distinction of the first Asian writer to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. His songs include both the Indian and Bangladeshi national anthems. This selection of his poems is read for you by Shyama Perera a gifted journalist, broadcaster and novelist."
"Rumi, claimed as the national poet of Iran, Turkey & Afghanistan had an early life dedicated to scholarly studies. He only started to write poetry after encountering a holy man called Shams whose subsequent death instilled a profound grief in Rumi and an outpouring of many thousands of verses in Persian. He also intrinsically linked with Sufism. This selection of his poems is read for you by Shyama Perera a gifted journalist, broadcaster and novelist."
"The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel but it is an art in itself. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not an easy task. Many try and many fail. Rabindranth Tagore was one to succeed as this audiobook ably demonstrates. We venture to the East to meet the poet and story teller who speaks a common language of love and mysticism which continues to convey valuable insights into universal themes in contemporary society. Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) who was a gifted Bengali Renaissance man, distinguishing himself as a philosopher, social and political reformer and a popular author in all literary genres. He was instrumental in an increased freedom for the press and influenced Gandhi and the founders of modern India. He composed hundreds of songs which are still sung today as they include the Indian and Bangladesh's national anthems. His prolific literary life has left a legacy of quality novels, essays and in this volume his shorter works. Gitanjali, one of his most famous works, earned him the distinction of being the first Asian writer to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. Among our readers are Richard Mitchley, Shyama Perera and Ghizela Rowe."
"Shyama Perara is a writer and journalist who writes clearly, succinctly and passionately on a number of issues as well as being a much admired novelist. In this collection she turns her knowing eye and insightful mind to British Theatre and the recent plays that come before audiences from the larges of west end theatres to the smallest of pop up theatres. It's a treat."
"The Poetry Of Flowers - An Introduction. The simple beauty of a single flower has the power to fascinate, captivate and delight us. Its fragrance can intoxicate and it remains a wonderful gift to give or receive. The vast varieties of flowers that exist provide an exceptional burst of vivid and subtle shades of colours inspiring a smooth transition from petal to paper for so many of our greatest poets including Wordsworth, Tennyson, Burns, Swinburne and Coleridge. Among our readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe."
