Poetry

From ‘A’ to ‘Zymurgy’ there are a million words in the English language and poets can magically weave them into lines and verse that create powerful images and feelings. From classical to modern and whether a couple of lines or a couple of thousand – poetry takes you somewhere nothing else can – enjoy the journey




This volume of Poetry is all about JANUARY – the first month of the year in our Gregorian calendar ushers in the New Year and promises new beginnings. The cold and bleak landscape of this winter month provides a rich background for our esteemed poets including Lord Byron, Henry Alford, Thomas Hardy, Daniel Sheehan, Emily Dickinson and Georgina Christina Rosetti. They amongst many others offer us their reflections and counterpoints which are read for you by, amongst others, Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe. The full volume can be purchased from iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores.

This volume of Poetry is all about FEBRUARY – the second month of the year in the Gregorian calendar, brings not only the shortest month but for lovers everywhere, Valentine’s day. On this and other themes our poets including William Wordsworth, Thomas Chatterton, Edith Nesbit, Daniel Sheehan, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Anne Bronte and others have much to say. Among our readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe The full volume can be purchased from iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores.
This volume of Poetry is all about MARCH – the third month of the year in the Gregorian calendar brings with it the Spring Equinox and the Ides of March together with the promise of warmer days and shorter nights. Our selected poets including WB Yeats, Jonathan Swift, Katherine Mansfield, William Morris, Alfred Austin, Algernon Charles Swinburne, who with many others provide words to bring the month to life. Among our readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe. The full volume can be purchased from iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores.

This volume of Poetry is all about APRIL – the fourth month of the year in our Gregorian calendar heralding Spring in earnest and of course April Showers and perhaps other unsettled weather. For our poets including Wilfred Owen, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry Alford, Henry Van Dyke, Percy Byssche Shelley and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow the month provides a rich source for them to muse upon. Among our readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe The full volume can be purchased from iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores
This volume of Poetry is all about MAY – the fifth and fertile month of the year in the Gregorian calendar and popular for May day and Workers Rights celebrations. For our poets including Milton, Longfellow, Hopkins and Van Goethe much else is on their minds and it’s of course, beautifully expressed. Among our readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe. The full volume can be purchased from iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores.

This volume of Poetry is all about JUNE – the sixth month of the year in our Gregorian calendar and the official beginning of Summer. The days stretch to their longest and many subjects and thoughts fill the minds of our Poets such as John Keats, Emily Dickinson, John Dryden, Sara Teasdale, Daniel Sheehan, Amy Levy, Alfred Austin and others who paint the month in poetry with masterly grace. Among our readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe. The full volume can be purchased from iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores.
This volume of Poetry is all about JULY – the seventh month of the year in the Gregorian calendar and the height of Summer which provides a rich harvest of colours and sights. Poets of the calibre of Alfred Lord Tennyson, Thomas Hardy, William Blake, Daniel Sheehan, HP Lovecraft, John Keats, Walt Whitman and Wilfred Owen describe and marshall their thoughts for our delight. Among our readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe The full volume can be purchased from iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores.

This volume of Poetry is all about AUGUST – The eighth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar and the full palette of nature is on glorious display. Our breadth of poets including William Wordsworth, Charles Algernon Swinburne, Thomas Hardy, Emily Bronte, Daniel Sheehan and Isaac Rosenberg who with many others describe and reveal their thoughts on the month and notable dates within it. Among our readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe. The full volume can be purchased from iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores.
This volume of Poetry is all about SEPTEMBER – The ninth month of the year in our Gregorian calendar and with it arrives the Autumn equinox and the first glimpses of the new season. There is much for out Poets including Robery Browning, William Wordsworth, Daniel Sheehan, Sidney Lanier, Charles Kingsley and Amy Lowell to say and write about. Among our readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe. The full volume can be purchased from iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores.

This volume of Poetry is all about OCTOBER – The tenth month of the year in the Gregorian calendar and the land prepares to give up more of its colourful coverings. On this and other themes our poets including Percy Bsysshe Shelley, William Wordsworth, Archibald Lampman, Laurence Dunbar, Alfred Austin, Thomas Hardy, Oliver Wendell Holmes have many lines to beguile you with. Among our readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe. The full volume can be purchased from iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores.
This volume of Poetry is all about NOVEMBER — The eleventh month of the year in the Gregorian calendar; the land becomes bleaker, harsher but no less beautiful in verse. For our poets, including Herman Melville, Thomas Hood, Matthew Arnold, Helen Hunt Jackson, William Wordsworth there is much to observe, write and comment on. Among our readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe. The full volume can be purchased from iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores. A companion e-book is published by our sister company Deadtree Publishing and also available at digital stores.

This volume of Poetry is all about DECEMBER – The 12th and final month in the Gregorian calendar. Winter is upon the land and Christmas provides a source of celebration. The poets including such notables as John Keats, Lord Byron, William Shakespeare, Percy Bsysshe Shelley, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Charlotte Bronte, Henry Can Dyke, Edith Nesbit reflect their views and extend their thoughts to us. Among our readers are Richard Mitchley and Ghizela Rowe. The full volume can be purchased from iTunes, Amazon and other digital stores. A companion e-book is also available from our sister company Deadtree Publishing at all fine digital stores.

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MONDAY 22nd April

Noon & 8pm & 4am

PLAYS/DRAMA

THE CARNIVAL OF DEATH PART I BY L. RON HUBBARD

Fans of classic Golden Age dramas will not be disappointed with this story of undercover narcotics agent Detective Bob Clark investigating the discovery of headless bodies in the seamy side of L.A.

 1pm & 9pm & 5am

IN CONVERSATION with SEBSTIAN BARRY

Dublin born Sebastian Barry is a novelist, poet, and playwright. His book Days without End the New York Times calls  “a dreamlike Western with a different kind of hero.” He is “an orphan, a refugee from Ireland’s Great Famine, a crack shot, a cross-dresser and a halfhearted soldier, but mostly he’s in love with a young man.” In the novel Barry writes, “A man’s memory might have only a hundred clear days in it and he has lived thousands. Can’t do much about that. We have our store of days and we spend them like forgetful drunkards.” Days without End won the 2017 Costa Book of the Year Award, the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction and the Independent Bookseller’s Award.  Barry reads from his work and answers questions posed by journalist Daniel Mendelsohn.

 2pm & 10pm & 6am

POETRY

Classic American Poetry followed by MARK STRAND

Mark Strand was born on Prince Edward Island, Canada, in 1934, and was raised and educated in the United States. Described as a “poet of mood, of integrated fragments, of twilit landscape, and of longing,” Mr. Strand has said, “I think the reality of the poem is a very ghostly one. It doesn’t try for the kind of concreteness that fiction tries for. It doesn’t ask you to imagine a place in detail; it suggests, it suggests, it suggests again.”

His nine poetry books include Blizzard of One, which won the Pulitzer Prize; Dark Harbor; The Continuous Life; and Reasons for Moving. He is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship.

 3pm & 11pm & 7am

ALTERNATIVE RADIO – The South, Slavery & the Lost Cause

Here at Audiobook Radio we are keen to provide a range of voices – very literally as well as in terms of opinions and views of the world. This strand created by Alternative Radio does just that. We will hear from some of the most informed minds and greatest social activists of our time whose take on justice and power does not chime with those that hold the power and don’t provide justice for all so we rarely get to hear from them in mainstream media. Different opinions always help inform our own and we are always eager to hear from listeners about this or any other strand. Contact us on the tab at www.audiobookradio.net.

Today’s talk is given by Jeffery Robinson who is the deputy legal director and the director of the ACLU Trone Center for Justice and Equality and concerns how we can’t continue to mythologize the past.

 4pm & Midnight & 8am

The Damon Runyon Theatre

New York has given rise to many authors who record and memorialise its streets and people.  Damon Runyon is one such author who brings the New York story and its cast of characters to vibrant life.  His tongue-in-cheek tales of gamblers, hustlers, actors, gangsters and dolls appeal to our sense of what we think we know.  Their colorful monikers; ‘Big Jule,’ ‘Harry the Horse Thief,’ ‘Good Time Charlie,’ or ‘The Seldom Seen Kid’ immediately give life to his sparkling words. And life is bigger, exuberant; better.

The veteran Radio actor John Brown voices the recurring ‘Broadway’ character so central to every episode which today are A Nice Price and The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown

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THE PODCAST HOUR – THE JO SHOW

Audiobookradio is delighted to launch a new strand, namely the Podcast Hour.  Our first podcast is the Jo Show presented by silky voiced Jo Sands and features a wide range of creatives with plenty to say….she calls it soul sipping maybe because her guests do some soul searching as Jo always gets to the parts that other interviewers don’t reach as you are about to find out.  Today her guest is Alex Czuleger, talent Manager and founder of The Green Room Talent Management Company who talks candidly about the harsh realities of creative business, humanity, and the importance of community engagement.

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HOLLYWOOD STAGE with Stage Door

Hollywood is indelibly printed in our minds as a go to place for entertainment and has been for decades. We take you back in time as The Hollywood ringmaster himself, CECIL B DE MILLE unveils Stage Door featuring GINGER ROGERS, ALOLPHE MENJOU & ROSALIND RUSSELL.

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SHORT STORIES – SAPPER & JEROME

This comes to you courtesy of Deadtree Publishing who have an excellent range of quality short stories from the masters of the craft.  Do check out their website for further miniature masterpieces at https://www.deadtreepublishing.com/ or any digital store for further information.  This hour opens with Spud Trevor of the Red Hussars by Sapper read by Jake Urry followed by The Man Who Went Wrong by Jerome K Jerome read by James Taylor (Vol 23).