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  Multilingual Poetry Collection 004

  Various Various

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  In LibriVox’s Multilingual Poetry Collection, LibriVox volunteers read their favourite public-domain poems in languages other than English. (Summary by David Barnes).

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  Henry VI Pt3 (Argo Classics)

  William Shakespeare

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  William Collins Books and Decca Records are proud to present ARGO Classics, a historic catalogue of classic prose and verse read by some of the world’s most renowned voices. Originally released as vinyl records, these expertly remastered stories are now available to download for the first time. 
  ‘To weep is to make less the depth of grief.’ 
  Henry VI Part III is part of Shakespeare’s trilogy centred on the Wars of the Roses. 
  After York's claims to the throne, Henry changes the succession and makes York his heir, disinheriting his own son. Henry's queen kills York, and York's son Edward seizes the throne. Henry is imprisoned several times and eventually killed by King Edward's brother, Richard. 
  All of the Shakespeare plays within the ARGO Classics catalogue are performed by the Marlowe Dramatic Society and Professional Players. The Marlowe was founded in 1907 with a mission to focus on effective delivery of verse, respect the integrity of texts, and rescue neglected plays by Shakespeare’s contemporaries and the less performed plays of Shakespeare himself. The Marlowe has performed annually at Cambridge Arts Theatre since its opening in 1936 and continues to produce some of the finest actors of their generations. 
  Thurston Dart, Professor of Music at London University and a Fellow of Jesus College Cambridge, directed the music for this production. 
  The full cast includes: Richard Marquand; Gordon Gardner; Toby Robertson; David Rowe-Beddoe; Trevor Bowen; Bob Jones; David Burke; Anthony Arlidge; John Shrapnel; Peter Orr; Richard Wordsworth; Malcolm Page; Patrick Garland; Patrick Wymark; George Rylands; Frank Duncan; James Taylor Whitehead; Denis McCarthy; John Shrapnel; John Hopkins; Dudley Jones; Martin Spencer; Malcolm Page; Mary Morris; Margaretta Scott; Carol Macready. 
  This top performing theatre production, hailed as one of the best, brings to life the European history encapsulated in Shakespeare's Henry VI, Pt.3. The Marlowe Dramatic Society and Professional Players rendition is a testament to their commitment to the integrity of texts and the effective delivery of verse. 
  For fans of Richard Parsons (GCSE English Shakespeare Text Guide), and Arthur Miller (Incident at Vichy).

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  The Span of a Small Forever - Poems

  April Gibson

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  With echoes of Audre Lorde’s The Cancer Journals and Susan Sontag’s Illness as Metaphor, an extraordinary debut collection from a prize-winning poet that chronicles a Black woman’s journey through disability, the byzantine healthcare system, life-giving, taking, and sacrifice. 
  With breathtaking lyricism and a vulnerability that pierces the heart, April Gibson journeys through the emotional abysses, the daily pleasures, the frustrations, and the joys of being a Black woman living with chronic illness.  
  Gibson offers a unique perspective on “the body,” viewing disability and healthcare through both feminist and socio-economic lenses filtered by race and faith. Through gorgeous sensory language that migrates memories, from carefree innocence to the ravages formed in its absence, Gibson bears witness to grief, courage, and resistance to redefine herself on her own terms.   
  Gibson presents her body as a “looking glass” that re-envisions illness, womanhood, motherhood, religious relics and collective loss through her physicality, through her lamenting, through her unearthing, reckoning and rebirth. Not only do we see her, but see the “we” in her. The Span of a Small Forever is both testimony and transformation—heart-shattering in its honesty, it ultimately offers us transcendent beauty, nourishment, and the strength we need to go on in our lives.

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  The Poetry of Francis Ledwidge

  Francis Ledwidge

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  Francis Edward Ledwidge was born on 19th August, 1887 in the small village of Janeville in Slane, County Meath in Ireland to parents that believed strongly in education.   
   
  At the age of 5 his father died and the entire family, already desperately poor, were forced into work and by 13 the young Ledwidge took whatever job was to hand—from farm hand to road labourer.  Throughout this time he applied himself to his poetry writing whenever and wherever he could.  His poems were published on a regular basis from the age of 14 in the Drogheda Independent, his local paper. 
   
  Ledwidge was an ardent Nationalist and was well known for his Sinn Fein and trade union activism.  This association got him fired from his job at the Slane copper mines, for organising a strike for better working conditions, but prompted his appointment as the Secretary to the Slane branch of the Meath Labour Union.   
   
  As a poet Ledwidge found patronage from Lord Dunsany who was well known in literary circles and was offered regular funds if he did not fight in World War I.   
   
  Ledwidge was originally opposed to the War but then, seeing the greater injustice of an enslaved Europe, changed his view and enlisted and fought for Lord Dunsany's regiment, part of the 10th Irish Division.   
   
  He thrived in the army finding promotion, happy to be serving Ireland and continuing to write but on 31st July 1917, whilst road laying for the Battle of Ypres, a German artillery shell exploded and he was blown to pieces.  He was 29.   
   
  Francis Ledwidge, the patriot and nationalist has been called ‘The Soldier Poet’, ‘The Peasant Poet’ and the ‘Poet of the Blackbird’ 
  1 - The Poetry of Francis Ledwidge - An Introduction 
  2 - Ireland by Francis Ledwidge 
  3 - The Call to Ireland by Francis Ledwidge 
  4 - At Currabwee by Francis Ledwidge 
  5 - My Mother by Francis Ledwidge 
  6 - Nocturne by Francis Ledwidge 
  7 - The Sylph by Francis Ledwidge 
  8 - Evening in February by Francis Ledwidge 
  9 - Evening in England by Francis Ledwidge 
  10 - A Twilight in Middle March by Francis Ledwidge 
  11 - A Rainy Day in April by Francis Ledwidge 
  12 - Thoughts at the Trysting Stile by Francis Ledwidge 
  13 - Evening in May by Francis Ledwidge 
  14 - Autumn Evening in Serbia by Francis Ledwidge 
  15 - An Attempt at a City Sunset by Francis Ledwidge 
  16 - Behind the Closed Eye by Francis Ledwidge 
  17 - The Visitation of Peace by Francis Ledwidge 
  18 - To My Best Friend by Francis Ledwidge 
  19 - In the Dusk by Francis Ledwidge 
  20 - In a Cafe by Francis Ledwidge 
  21 - Lady Fair by Francis Ledwidge 
  22 - Low Moonland by Francis Ledwidge 
  23 - Old Clo by Francis Ledwidge 
  24 - The Maid in Low Moonland by Francis Ledwidge 
  25 - The Weddiing Morning by Francis Ledwidge 
  26 - To One Weeping by Francis Ledwidge 
  27 - Youth by Francis Ledwidge 
  28 - Had I a Golden Pound (After the Irish) by Francis Ledwidge 
  29 - The Lanawn Shee by Francis Ledwidge 
  30 - Fairies by Francis Ledwidge 
  31 - The Little Children by Francis Ledwidge 
  32 - A Fairy Hunt by Francis Ledwidge 
  33 - Pan by Francis Ledwidge 
  34 - The Find by Francis Ledwidge 
  35 - The Shadow People by Francis Ledwidge 
  36 - Bound to the Mast by Francis Ledwidge 
  37 - To One Who Comes Now and Then by Francis Ledwidge 
  38 - To an Old Quill of Lord Dunsany's by Francis Ledwidge 
  39 - Lament for the Poets, 1916 by Francis Ledwidge 
  40 - Waiting by Francis Ledwidge 
  41 - Lament for Thomas McDonagh by Francis Ledwidge 
  42 - The Dead Kings by Francis Ledwidge 
  43 - The Lost Ones by Francis Ledwidge 
  44 - An Old Pain by Francis Ledwidge 
  45 - Growing Old by

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  The Narrow Road to the Interior...

  Matsuo Basho

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  Japanese poetry is well-known for its clarity and concision, and Narrow Road to the Interior and H?j?ki are two of the best-loved, and most intensely Japanese, works of their kind; famous for their beautiful, delicate verse and subtle insight into the human condition. It has been said of Narrow Road that ‘it was as if the very soul of Japan had itself written it’. It takes the form of a travel diary, and traces the poet’s journey from Edo (modern-day Tokyo) to the northern interior. H?j?ki, a much earlier work written by Ch?mei, a Buddhist hermit, is essentially a meditation on the transience of the world. Read by the famous classical Japanese actor Togo Igawa, the full beauty of its ancient cadences and rhythms is drawn out.

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  Art and Poetry

  Jacques Maritain

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  The French philosopher’s treatise on the nature of art and poetry includes enlightening critiques of major painters and dialogues with notable writers.Originally published in 1935 with the title Frontières de la Poésie, this work by Jacques Maritain explores the nature and subjectivity of art and poetry. As a philosopher, Maritain attempts to define the two concepts, describing them as virtuous, being primarily concerned with beauty. Rather than focusing on aesthetic theory, Maritain examines his ideas at a more tangible level, including a discussion of how art and poetry are produced.Art and Poetry further develops the principles established in Maritain’s earlier work, Art and Scholasticism, which has deeply influenced contemporary artists. Those concepts are employed here to illuminate the creative works of such diverse artists as Georges Rouault, Marc Chagall, Gino Severini, and Arthur Lourié. Maritain also relates fascinating dialogues with notable authors such as André Gide, Jean Cocteau, and others.

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