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  Robert Burns - a collection of...

  Robert Burns

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  Robert Burns like you've never heard him before. 
  Set within modern and vivid soundscapes, this collection gives Burns' texts new resonance. From the soullessness of a call-centre through the simple joy of a baby’s nursery to the horror of the battlefields and all the way into space, this is a visceral roller-coaster through the poems and songs of Scotland’s National Bard. 
  Produced by multi-award winning, immersive audio company Almost Tangible. 
  Chapters: 
  1 - Full Burns Sound-Journey (All poems) 
  2 - A Man's A Man for a' That (Eilidh Loan) 
  3 - A Poet's Address to his Love-Begotten Daughter (Lewis Rae) 
  4 - Address to a Haggis (Sophia McLean) 
  5 - Ae Fond Kiss, and Then we Sever (Eilidh Loan) 
  6 - A Red Red Rose, sung (Joshua Manning, Steph MacGaraidh, Sophia McLean) 
  7 - A Red Red Rose, spoken (Eilidh Loan) 
  8 - Auld Lang Syne (Joshua Manning, Steph MacGaraidh, Sophia McLean) 
  9 - Belles of Mauchline/To Ruin (James Robinson/Sam Garioch) 
  10 - Bottle and Friend (Tom Vanson) 
  11 - Epitaph for a Friend (Brigit Forsyth) 
  12 - Gin I Were a Baron's Heir (Peter Gardiner) 
  13 - John Anderson, my Jo (Ross Sutherland) 
  14 - My Heart's in the Highlands (Ross Sutherland) 
  15 - Pretty Peg (Sam Garioch) 
  16 - Scots Wha Hae (Peter Gardiner) 
  17 - Sweet Afton (James Robinson) 
  18 - Tam O'Shanter (Steph MacGaraidh) 
  19 - The Bonny Earl of Murray (Brigit Forsyth) 
  20 - To a Louse (Joshua Manning) 
  21 - To a Mountain Daisy (Sophia McLean) 
  22 - To a Mouse (Joshua Manning) 
  23 - To the Toothache (Tom Vanson) 
  24 - Ye Banks and Braes (Tracy Wiles) 
  Director: Carl Prekopp 
  Sound Designer/Composer: Jon Nicholls 
  Production Manager: Alex Lynch 
  Exec Producer: Charlotte Melén 
  Cover Design: Tom Prekopp

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  St Georges Day - A Holiday in Verse

  Robert Browning, John Keats,...

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  The United States has July 4th, Ireland St Patrick’s Day and France Bastille Day. 
  Most Nations celebrate a particular day as ‘theirs’. That day is when they turn to themselves; to reflect on the past, to revel in the present and to look forward to the future. 
  For England 23rd April is St George’s Day. 
  St George, a hero from bygone days, who slays Dragons and pursues other mythic deeds, is part of childhood.  But for modern times, for modern Nations, a greater purpose is needed. 
  For England St George is best now described as a principle.  A small Nation grown large and respected for its brainpower, brawn and ingenuity and fighting for beliefs, misguidedly or not, that others can’t or won’t. 
  Of course England’s role has changed many times over the centuries but perhaps its basic tenets and desires haven’t.  Fair Play. A role for everyone on equal terms. Democracy.  Tolerance. A safe haven for those oppressed.  England ‘expects’ and sometimes succeeds.

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  Multilingual Poetry Collection 005

  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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  #Wuhan2 - Empowering poems and...

  Sophia Behal

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  The book is the second part of #Wuhan. It is called #Wuhan2 and it deals with feelings the pandemic might invoke. Most certainly are all of us scared from an epidemy. Find some alarming and soothing words in this book of poetry.

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  Please make me pretty I don't...

  Tawanda Mulalu

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  The debut collection of an exciting new voice in poetryPlease make me pretty, I don't want to die explores tactility, sound, sensuality, and intimacy. Set across the four seasons of a year, these fresh and original poems by Tawanda Mulalu combine an inviting confessional voice and offbeat imagery, and offer an appealing mixture of seriousness and humor.The speaker of these poems probes romantic and interracial intimacy, the strangeness and difficulty of his experiences as a diasporic Black African in White America, his time working as a teacher's assistant in a third-grade classroom, and his ambivalent admiration for canonical poets who have influenced him, especially Sylvia Plath. Juxtaposing traditional forms such as sonnets and elegies with less orthodox interjections, such as prose-poem "prayers" and other meditations, the collection presents a poetic world both familiar and jarring—one in which history, the body, and poetry can collide in a single surprising turn of image: "The stars also suffer. Immense and dead, their gasses burn / distant like castanets of antebellum teeth. My open window / a synecdoche of country."

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  Young Adventure A Book of Poems

  Stephen Vincent Benét

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  Stephen Vincent Benét (July 22, 1898 – March 13, 1943) was an American author, poet, short story writer and novelist. He is best known for his book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War, John Brown's Body (1928), for which he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1929, and for two short stories, "The Devil and Daniel Webster" and "By the Waters of Babylon".It was a line of Benet's poetry that gave the title to Dee Brown's famous history of the destruction of Native American tribes by the United States: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. (Summary excerpted from Wikipedia)This recording includes the Dedication, Foreword and first 16 poems from Young Adventure, A Book of Poems.

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