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Topic: DAMIEN MOLONY READING 7 POEMS | BBC Poetry Please 'Time, Memory and Remembrance' | 24 April 2016

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WOW!

Damien has made his 6th appearance on BBC Poetry Please

reading 7 poems on 'Time, Memory and Remembrance'

 

The individual readings and poems are listed below, but please do listen to the whole programme with the other readings and Roger McGough's wonderful words in between.

 

The programme is still available on the BBC Radio iplayer (works internationally)

 

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Poems read by Damien

04.06 'The Self Unseeing' Thomas Hardy

11.40 'A Memory' by Robert Brooke

14.46 'Burnt Norton' by T.S Eliot

16.52 'Beyond The Last Lamp' by Thomas Hardy

19.30 'The Wayfarer' by Padraic Pearse

20.56 'Extract From The Spring In Ireland 1916' by James Stephens

23.55 'Easter 1916' by W.B. Yeats

 

 

(who can spot which one we've heard before?)

 



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More poetry! Woohoo

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Ooh, what a nice thing to wake up to!  Good thing we have you domino keeping an eye out for these things.

Ps, Easter 1916



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Thank you, domino, for this.

I have listened to this all afternoon, just lovely to hear. I'm so pleased at the Rising poets being included - and was delighted to hear Roger McGough pronounce Pádraig Pearse's name correctly.

I could listen to Damien reading poetry all day, using any acent at all.

I just wish the BBC would put Poetry Please out on CD. Just the poems, they could do a years worth at once. Copyright, I suppose, although most of the poets have been dead for ages.


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All thanks to Poetry Please for contacting me yesterday to inform us of the programme. They apologised for not contacting at the time but I am kicking myself for missing the broadcast as I've been keeping an eye on the schedules! 

Yes whimsy well done Damien first read Easter 1916 in the Poetry Please Yeats special, August 2014.

This is a beautiful programme.. not only for Damien's readings (Which are utterly magical and beguiling!) but for all the poems, the entire sentiment and for all the insights in between.

I particularly loved when Roger McGough said:

"T.S Eliot's poetry is known for being difficult to make any sense of, but in a way that doesn't matter if your experience of the poem stretches your mind. "  Just love that.



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Yeah - thanks domino! And yay for another poetic treat!!

I put this while cooking dinner the other night....not the best way to listen!  I need to make some time for a proper listen sometime soon.



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10 days left to listen to Damien's reading 7 poems on 'Time, Memory and Remembrance' on BBC Radio iplayer! (works internationally)

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Has everybody had a chance to listen?

These are beautiful, almost unbearably moving poems.


Once again, beguiling readings with impressive accent changes!



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I did listen to the whole programme once.  But as usual I was captivated by the voice more than anything and didn't really absorb the poems in and of themselves first time around.  I'm waiting for a quiet moment to listen again.



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Last chance to listen! Just 1 day left!

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Listening to Damien read poetry?

The perfect way to spend New Years day!

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