Sunday, 28 June 2026

Alice Walker - interviewed by Henry Lyman for Poems to a Listener (1984 series)

 


Alice Walker, reading from Good Night, Willie Lee and other collections, gives us poems about her childhood in rural Georgia, her travels in Africa, and her involvement in the Civil Rights Movement. She describes her baptism in a local creek: “It was just such an interesting thing to go down to the creek beautifully dressed in white, with all the other people dressed in white, and be held by the people of the community.”

Denise Levertov - interviewed by Henry Lyman for Poems to a Listener (1984 series)

 



Reading from Candles in Babylon, Denise Levertov discusses the threat of nuclear war and its psychological effect on adults and on children: “I’ve heard of a child, who, when asked what he was going to do when he grew up, said, ‘But I’m not going to grow up.’”

Seamus Heaney - interviewed by Henry Lyman for Poems to a Listener (1983 series), Part Two


 

In this continued reading and conversation Heaney talks about the political tensions between Protestants and Catholics, as well as the more friendly relations he observed in the countryside: “The individual Protestant farmer in your own district was your neighbor, rather than your enemy.”

Seamus Heaney - interviewed by Henry Lyman for Poems to a Listener (1983 series), Part One


 

Reading from Poems 1965-1975 and Field Work, Seamus Heaney, recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature, speaks of the landscape of Northern Ireland, the farm where he grew up, and the workers and craftsmen of the neighborhood: “The poet has to be a voice-box for something that is in the land and in the people.”

Seamus Heaney speaking about Gaelic and the Irish landscape


 

Sunday, 15 February 2026

5 Poems by Diane Di Prima

 



5 Poems by Gary Snyder

 



5 Poems by Dudley Randall


 


5 POEMS BY STANLEY KUNITZ

 



5 Poems by Robin Blaser

 



5 Poems by Madeline Gleason

 



5 poems by James Laughlin

 


Audre Lorde reads Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic As Power (FULL Updated)

 



5 poems by Audre Lorde

 


5 Poems by Gregory Corso


 

5 Poems by Jack Spicer

 


5 Poems by Ted Berrigan


 

5 Poems by Etheridge Knight


 

5 poems by Gwendolyn Brooks

 


Saturday, 31 January 2026

Tom Waits Concert and Interview - 1973 09 21 KPFK Folk Scene Broadcast v...

Tom Waits 1983 Swordfishtrombone Interview

NYSL: Susan Cheever, E.E. Cummings: A Life

Ezra Pound interview for BBC 1959

The Poetry Deal: a film with Diane di Prima

Dylan Thomas - A Poet's Guide (BBC)

Gary Snyder: Ecology and Poetry

Robert Burns The Peoples Poet BBC Documentary

Day at Night: Christopher Isherwood

Michael Longley - Where Poems Come From (BBC)

Thomas Chatterton - The Myth of the Doomed Poet (BBC)

Wednesday, 28 January 2026

Rainer Maria Rilke - ZDF Matinee [1975]

Hölderlin's Metaphysics (Lecture)

The Life and Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 -1926) with Distinguishe...

The Ecstasy of Aloneness - Rainer Maria Rilke

Thomas Mann: His Life and Work (documentary)

Wallace Stevens: His Life and Work

Emily Dickinson – Unravelling her 20 year Seclusion | Biographical Docum...

XLI POEMS by E. E. Cummings ~ Full Audiobook ~

e. e. Cummings documentary

POETRY BY STRIDER MARCUS JONES

Thursday, 22 January 2026

"The Poetry of Langston Hughes" Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis (LP)

JOHN STEINBECK READS HIS STORIES RECORD LP

PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY THE ENGLISH POETS ARGO RECORD LP

THE DREAM KEEPER LANGSTON HUGHES READS POEMS RECORD LP

CHRISTOPHER LEE READS DRACULA RECORD LP

J.R.R. TOLKIEN MIDDLE EARTH POEMS AND SONGS RECORD LP

CATCH 22 READ BY JOSEPH HELLER RECORD LP

THOMAS HARDY POETRY - RICHARD BURTON RECORD LP

🎵 Classical Guitar 🎼 Slow & Harmonic Baroque Pieces 1 (Part 7) ❤️ Sad & ...

🎵 Classical Guitar 🎼 Slow & Harmonic Baroque Pieces 2 (Part 8) ❤️ Sad & ...

Saturday, 17 January 2026

The Great and Secret Show [1/2] by Clive Barker (Roy Avers)

The Great and Secret Show [2/2] by Clive Barker (Roy Avers)

Imajica [1/4] by Clive Barker (Steven Crossley)

Imajica [2/4] by Clive Barker (Steven Crossley)

Imajica [3/4] by Clive Barker (Steven Crossley)

Imajica [4/4] by Clive Barker (Steven Crossley)

Clive Barker's Weaveworld 1/3 (NOT FOR KIDS)

Clive Barker's Weavewold 2/3 (NOT FOR KIDS)

Clive Barker Weaveworld 3/3 (NOT FOR KIDS)

Sphere by Michael Crichton (Bob Askey)

Frankenstein Unbound audiobook by and read by Brian Aldiss.

THE SALIVA TREE by Brian W. Aldiss

Friday, 9 January 2026

Richard Burton reads 'Fern Hill' by Dylan Thomas

Richard Burton reads Dylan Thomas's poem 'The force that through the gre...

Richard Burton reads Dylan Thomas's poem 'Before I knocked'

Emily Dickinson -- two poems read by Emma Fielding: 'Parting' &' A narro...

Edward Thomas. (1878-1917) - Two poems read by Tony Britton: 'Tears' and...

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) -- Poem: 'The Lake Isle of Innisfree' r...

John Keats (1795-1821) – Poem: ‘Ode to a nightingale’ read by Claire Blo...

Sylvia Plath reading her poems #2

Sylvia Plath reading her poems #3

Sylvia Plath reads her best poems

Robert Frost reads his best poems

Robert Frost reads his poems #2

Poetry: "The Going" by Thomas Hardy (read by Alan Bates)