Dylan Willoughby reading William Wordsworth’s ‘Tintern Abbey’
Dylan Willoughby’s poetry has been published in many issues of Agenda. He is a fellow of The MacDowell Colony and Yaddo, and a graduate of the MFA program in Creative Writing at Cornell University. He wrote his senior thesis on William Wordsworth at Cornell under Reeve Parker and Stephen Parrish, for which he received the honor of summa cum laude.
The reading appears on the Wordsworth250 website (organised by his relatives).
Tintern Abbey – reader Dylan Willoughby
‘Tony Conran Remembered’ performed at Another Festival, Caernarfon July 2015
Music arranged by Sioned Webb and played by Angharad Wyn Jones on Harp. Recorded by Neil Browning.
09 from Castles Part I – The Earl and the Trees – reader John Griffiths
10 from Castles Part V – Conran Places – readers Sheila Brook, Annee Griffiths, Pauline Down
15 from What Brings You Here So Late Part 2 – 1979 – readers Dyfan Roberts, Pauline Down and John Griffiths
16 from What Brings You Here So Late Part 4 – The Morrigu – readers John Griffiths, Sheila Brook
18 Introduction to God in Everworlds from Three Symphonies – Pauline Down
Seán Street
As David Jones implied, all poets, artists, musicians, sculptors are, at their best, ‘Carpenters of Song’.
Seán Street has published nine collections, his latest being Cello (Rockingham Press, 2013) and Jazz Time (Lapwing Publications, 2014). Prose includes The Poetry of Radio (Routledge, 2013) and The Memory of Sound (Routledge, 2015). Other works include The Wreck of the Deutschland (Souvenir Press, 1992) and The Dymock Poets (Seren, new edition, 2014). A new collection, Camera Obscura, has just been published by Rockingham Press. He broadcasts radio features and documentaries on Radios 3 and 4.
Elias was present at Runneymede at the sealing of Magna Carta in 1215, brought the copy that still survives at Salisbury to Old Sarum, and later worked on the building of the new church, where he became a Canon.
A poem based on the text of the film is included in Sean’s recently published Rockingham collection, Camera Obscura.
Dylan Jones
Dylan is a Welsh poet and songwriter. His work has appeared in Agenda several times. Dylan says of his film/songs: ‘ I like all forms of expression too –
though it did take a while to get comfortable with song lyrics. I always knew they were different from poetry – but at first it was hard to detach them from poetry.’
THE SHEILING ‘Waking when the magpie calls’ (YouTube)
THE SHEILING ‘Song for Mathias’ (YouTube)
THE SHEILING ‘The Cruel Mother’ (YouTube)
THE SHEILING ‘Open the door’ (YouTube)
David Pollard
David’s new collection, Finis-terre, was recently published by Agenda Editions.
Carmen Crane
Carmen Crane, 9 years old, hand-reared a brood of orphaned ducklings at home in the bath tub. They were set free eventually and sadly one by one, disappeared or died. Carmen’s favourite duckling called Milo died too. Devastated, she collected things from the garden with which to bury him with to help him on his way to heaven. She then made up this song about it:
Marek Urbanowicz
How to improve reading your poetry aloud:
Patricia McCarthy
Patricia reads Clothes that escaped the Great War, winner of the first prize in the National Poetry Competition 2012:
You can also view on Youtube via The Poetry Society.
Special Exiles
Special Exiles audio feature focusing on home sickness by Irish poet, Eamon Grennan.
From ‘Emigration Road’, a dramatic recital for two voices (Sean Coyne & Tegolin Knowland from Renvyle, Connemara)
Poetry and Opera Hour
The Poetry & Opera issue of Agenda Vol 47 No 3/4 was featured on a radio programme: Poetry and Opera Hour on Resonance FM, a London Arts station, hosted by Richard Scott. Patricia McCarthy, Timothy Adès, Eva Salzman and Sorana Santos were asked about their interest in Opera, read one of their own poems linking to this and chose a favourite opera extract which was played between each interview.
Timothy Adès, well known translator/poet, has a famous composer son, Thomas Adès, who wrote a piece for the Agenda issue; Eva Salzman has a composer father and was brought up amongst well-known composers and musicians in New York; and Sorano Santos is a young music graduate who composes music and writes poems. She was the chosen young Broadsheet poet in the Poetry & Opera issue.
They can be heard at The Opera Hour – series 4/episode 10 (Resonance FM)
