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Dream Song 29 22 Jan 2012 | 01:15 am
This is, for those of you who have not been paying attention, the third Saturday of January. What a sunny one it is. Are you getting the hang of 2012 yet? How are those resolutions going? Well? Oh, n...
In Warsaw 19 Jan 2012 | 05:53 am
Hello, and welcome to a brand new year of people reading poems! James Savage-Hanford is going to start us off with a poem by Czesław Miłosz called W Warszawie. It’s a bitter and reluctant lament, writ...
New Year and New Poems! 12 Jan 2012 | 11:48 am
Happy 2012 to all of you people – people who, I imagine, wish they were reading poems. Well, good news! This site is active and running again, and we are looking forward to new readings from old a...
The Day 21 Dec 2010 | 11:48 pm
As you can see, PRP just took another long break – I can only give as an excuse the very tiring end to my first semester in France. However, I have certainly not forgotten you altogether, and am very...
Talking In Bed 5 Nov 2010 | 01:29 am
This poem by Philip Larkin recently celebrated its fiftieth anniversary. Thanks to Gareth Burgess for reading it here:
Prometheus 1 Nov 2010 | 05:08 am
This is one of my very favourite poems in German. It’s by Goethe, and Louisa Unsin has brought out the rebellious spirit of Sturm und Drang in her interpretation. Words below as ever. Prometheus v...
Warming Her Pearls 22 Oct 2010 | 04:31 am
This gorgeous poem by Carol Ann Duffy is going to be discussed in my English Poetry class tomorrow. I can’t wait, and in the meantime I thought I’d share Alice Tarbuck’s recording of it.
Shancoduff 20 Oct 2010 | 04:57 am
Another gorgeous Northern Irish poem, this one written By Patrick Kavanagh, rooted in landscape and read wonderfully by Daniel Galbraith.
After Tra-na-Rossan 16 Oct 2010 | 05:20 am
After a long pause occasioned only by my neglectfulness, I offer another reading by Daniel Galbraith. He has chosen to read another Northern Irish poem, this one taken from Michael Longley’s 2004 col...
To His Coy Mistress 15 Oct 2010 | 09:59 am
Andrew Marvell’s famous (and metaphysical) poem of seduction has long been a favourite of mine, for the rhetorical flights and the sheer barefaced nerve of it. Stephen Pain has been kind enough to se...
