The spoken Word
4 total works
This new CD from British Library Publishing contains recordings from the BBC archives spanning nearly thirty years. On it, the author discusses many diverse topics, including the causes of war and the effects of drug-taking on the writing process, and talks about his novels "Brave New World" and "Island". Many of the recordings here have not previously been published, and offer insight into one of the most intriguing authors of the 20th century.
This title includes BBC recordings of Bob Cobbing reading his early work. Many of the tracks are previously unpublished. Concerns the work of a unique and intriguing poet. Other titles in the series have received press coverage in national newspapers in the UK and USA plus coverage on BBC radio. Bob Cobbing (1920-2002) was a crucial figure in the British avant-garde poetry and publishing scenes of the latter half of the twentieth century. The primary focus of his energies was performance sound poetry, a pan-continental phenomenon whose practitioners dispensed with conventional poetic language and syntax almost entirely. For Cobbing, a graphic pattern was as fitting a score for performance as a text. The recordings in this collection are drawn mainly from private tapes now in the care of the British Library and include Cobbing's first commercially issued sound work "26 Sound Poems" plus collaborations with Annea Lockwood, Henri Chopin, Francois Dufrene and others.
This collection brings together recordings of ten Black British and Caribbean poets. The selections illustrate a range of experiences, emotions, styles and influences, reflecting both the culture of the Caribbean and life in Britain. The featured poets all read their own work, in a mixture of studio recordings and electrifying live performances. This set is an essential purchase for anybody interested in black writing and poetry in performance in Britain today.
From Alfred, Lord Tennyson to Ted Hughes, this three CD compilation includes recordings of some of the greatest British poets of the 20th century. Thirty poets are included, each reading from their own work, often with their own spoken introductions. The selection includes historic recordings by Tennyson and Robert Browning; poets laureate John Masefield, Cecil Day Lewis, John Betjeman and Ted Hughes; unforgettable voices, such as Edith Sitwell and Dylan Thomas; and rare recordings by Philip Larkin and Edwin Morgan. The majority of these recordings are taken from BBC broadcasts and are published for the first time.