The Spoken Word : historic literary recordings and radio broadcasts / The British Library

Compilation Steve Cleary ; introductory essay by Andrew Motion

CD 1

1. Stein. A Valentine to Sherwood Anderson (extract)

2. Frost. After Apple-Picking

3. Frost. Mending Wall

4. Frost. Introduction to The Star-Splitter

5. Frost. The Star-Splitter

6. Stevens. Credences of Summer

7. Williams. Introduction to Spring and All I

8. Williams. Spring and All I

9. Williams. This Is Just to Say

10. Williams. The Yachts

11. Williams. Picture of a Nude in a Machine Shop

12. Pound. Canto 1

13. Pound. Canto 51

14. Pound. Canto 45

15. Jeffers. Shane O'Neill's Cairn

16. Jeffers. The Low Sky

17. Jeffers. Inscription for a Gravestone

18. Jeffers. The Bed by the Window

19. Jeffers. The Coast-Road

20. Jeffers. Oh Lovely Rock

21. Eliot. Four Preludes

22. Eliot. The Journey of the Magi

23. Eliot. The Burial of the Dead

24. Aiken. Gabriel de Ford

25. Aiken. Introduction to Morning Song of Senlin

26. Aiken. Morning Song of Senlin

27. Aiken. Blues for Ruby Matrix I

1. MacLeish. American Letter

CD 2

2. Cummings. she being Brand

3. Cummings. "next to of course god america i

4. Cummings. MEMORABILIA

5. Cummings. of all the blessings which to man

6. Cummings. anyone lived in a pretty how town

7. Cummings. THANKSGIVING (1956)

8. Hughes. One-Way Ticket

9. Hughes. The Negro Speaks of Rivers

10. Hughes. Puzzled

11. Hughes. Trumpet Player

12. Hughes. Ballad of the Gypsy

13. Nash. Introduction

14. Nash. The Private Dining Room

15. Nash. Introduction to Peekaboo, I Almost See You

16. Nash. Peekaboo, I Almost See You

17. Roethke. Introduction

18. Roethke. The Heron

19. Roethke. Introduction to Big Wind

20. Roethke. Big Wind

21. Roethke. Introduction to The Waking

22. Roethke. The Waking

23. Jarrell. Introduction to A Quilt-Pattern

24. Jarrell. A Quilt-Pattern

25. Berryman. Introduction

26. Berryman. Dream Song 1

27. Berryman. Dream Song 5

28. Berryman. Dream Song 27

29. Berryman. Dream Song 17

30. Berryman. Dream Song 16

31. Brooks. Introduction

32. Brooks. We Real Cool

33. Brooks. Introduction to We Real Cool (second reading)

34. Brooks. We Real Cool (second reading)

35. Brooks. Introduction to Riot

36. Brooks. Riot

37. Brooks. Introduction to A Man of the Middle Class

38. Brooks. A Man of the Middle Class

39. Lowell. For the Union Dead

40. Lowell. Water

41. Lowell. The Flaw

42. Duncan. Introduction

43. Duncan. My mother would be a falconress

CD 3

1. Ferlinghetti. Introduction to I am Waiting

2. Ferlinghetti. I am Waiting

3. Bukowski. fire station

4. Bukowski. the tragedy of the leaves

5. Ginsberg. First Party at Ken Kesey's with Hell's Angels

6. Ginsberg. Kral Majales

7. Ashbery. Intro to Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape

8. Ashbery. Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape

9. Ashbery. Introduction to Variations, Calypso and Fugue etc.

10. Ashbery. Variations, Calypso and Fugue etc.

11. Sexton. Introduction to The Addict

12. Sexton. The Addict

13. Sexton. Letter Written on a Ferry Crossing Long Island Sound

14. Rich. In the Evening

15. Rich. I Dream I'm the Death of Orpheus

16. Rich. Mother-in-Law

17. Rich. North American Time (VI-IX)

18. Corso. The Mutation of the Spirit

19. Plath. Candles

20. Plath. Berck-Plage

21. Baraka. A Poem some people will have to understand

22. Baraka. Epistrophe