I should be whispering this because Halloween is almost upon us. A time of Witches, Ghouls and Hauntings and all kinds of scary things that come out the evening before All Saints Day to wreak havoc... I'm glad you're listening so let us begin.
Many of us remember that feeling from childhood when an adult or even our friends would tell us scary stories of things that go bump in the night. It was a time to scare and be scared and no matter how terrifying the stories were it was a good feeling punctuated by yelps and laughs. Halloween is now firmly established in the Calendar as a favourite; to go trick or treating and an excuse for kids everywhere to dress up in outlandish attire and collect vast quantities of sweets.
Equally adults everywhere are prone to switch off the lights and pretend to be out! In our collection the poems show that words have been used to enthral and suggest dark mysterious forces beyond our control for quite some time. With authors of the ability of Keats, Poe, Byron, Sheehan & Shakespeare, to nourish these primeval fears the poems have an unsettling nature as all bad things should!
This collection of poems is read to you by Ghizela Rowe & Gideon Wagner.
John Keats' letters paint an unforgettably vivid and moving picture of the richly productive but also tragic final years of the poet's life. As he ponders on the nature of the writer's craft...
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Walt Whitman, John Keats, Emily Dickinson, Henry David Thoreau, Emily Bronte, Ralph Waldo Emerson
Narrator
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Jonathan Epstein, Malcolm Ingram, Emma Micklewright, Tara Franklin, Julie Webster
Publisher
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Berkshire Media Artists
Normal Retail Price
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$ 25.00
Audible Price
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$ 17.50
It is hard to top the pleasure of a woodland walk in Spring unless of course you have a lyric poet as your guide. Now that is possible with Poets of Nature....
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Johnson transformed memories of the sermons he heard in the late 1800s by renowned African American preachers into this nowclassic work of original poetry....
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Geoffrey Palmer, Kenneth Cranham, Simon Russell Beale
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BBC WW
Normal Retail Price
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$ 17.88
Audible Price
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$ 12.51
John Betjeman first fell in love with Cornwall during his childhood holidays and continued to return to it yearly until his death. It inspired some of his best poems and most evocative prose....
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Listen to Grammy Awardwinning poet Maya Angelou read her newest work, Amazing Peace, as well some of her bestloved poems in this unique and inspiring audio collection....
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Lucille Clifton, Eamon Grennan, Edward Hirsch, William Matthews, James Merrill, Paul Muldoon, Robert Pinsky, Muriel Rukeyser
Narrator
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Alexander Neubauer
Publisher
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Alexander Neubauer
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$ 24.95
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$ 17.47
This first audio edition of Poetry in Person: 25 Years of Conversation with America's Poets invites listeners into an intimate classroom with eight acclaimed poets....
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Gerard Benson (editor), Judith Chernaik (editor), Cicely Herbert (editor)
Narrator
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Gerard Benson, Cicely Herbert
Publisher
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Orion Publishing Group Limited
Normal Retail Price
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$ 13.90
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$ 9.73
This is a reissue in download format of the tape published in 1995, which includes 72 poems read by the compilers, and nine other poets reading their own and other poems....
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A Shropshire Lad is A. E. Housman's reflections on love, death, and the eternal uncertainty of the human condition, placed in an idealized world of rural England....
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Many of us are familiar with the epic stories and legends of the classical world. This anthology, the only one of its kind on audiobook, gives an insight into a more lyrical and tender aspect of Greek...
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Oscar Wilde, Alfred Noyes, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Narrator
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Sean Barrett, David ShawParker
Publisher
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The Copyright Group
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$ 6.94
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$ 4.86
Poetry can capture the imagination in a few short lines but narrative verse or poetry takes the form of telling a story whether it be simple or complex in a longer form....
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Family, teachers, pupils, and the dreaded school inspector all leap to life in this wonderfully warm and witty audio poetry collection....
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From Shakespeare to Milton, Keats to Shelley and Tennyson to Yeats, this accessible history (especially written for Naxos Audiobooks) introduces the listener to countless small masterpieces....
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Taylor's first live spokenword collection since 2003, Icarus Airlines, contains 34 poems, including this one by Billy Collins....
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Edward Fitzgerald's translation of a selection of poems originally written by Omar Khayyam was originally published in 1859. Here, a selection is read by Alfred Drake....
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The work in this volume is more varied in form and content than in his first book, and shows a change of heart, a greater acceptance of the human condition, along with a more impersonal voice....
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