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| Centenary reading, February 2009 at the Royal Institution |
| The readings
listed below may be downloaded by clicking on them. They are presented in
the order in which they occurred at the event. (technical note: files are zipped mp3 format) |
| Introduction by Grey Gowrie |
| He will watch the hawk read by Andrew Motion |
| I hear the cries of evening read by Grey Gowrie |
| An 'I' can never be great man read by Grey Gowrie |
| My parents kept me from children who were rough read by Seamus Heaney |
| Introduction by Seamus Heaney |
| What I expected was read by Seamus Heaney |
| Moving through the silent crowd read by Andrew Motion |
| Your body is stars whose million glitter here read by Seamus Heaney |
| I think continually of those who were truly great read by Seamus Heaney |
| After they have tired of the brilliance of cities read by Tony Harrison |
| The Express read by Seamus Heaney |
| The landscape near an aerodrome read by Seamus Heaney |
| The pylons read by Grey Gowrie |
| In railway halls, on pavements near the traffic read by Tony Harrison |
| That girl who laughed and had black eyes read by Tony Harrison |
| Ultima Ratio Regnum read by Tony Harrison |
| A Stopwatch and an Ordnance Map read by Grey Gowrie |
| Fall of a City read by Andrew Motion |
| The Vase of Tears read by Andrew Motion |
| The Barn read by Tony Harrison |
| Elegy for Margaret, Part V read by Andrew Motion |
| Almond Tree in a Bombed City read by Natasha Spender |
| Seascape read by Natasha Spender |
| In Attica read by Natasha Spender |
| Missing my Daughter read by Grey Gowrie |
| Sirmione Peninsular read by Grey Gowrie |
| Diary Poems: Auden at Milwaukee read by Barry Humphries |
| Spender at Melbourne (by Barry Humphries) read by Barry Humphries |
| One more new botched beginning read by Andrew Motion |
| Louis MacNeice read by Barry Humphries |
| Late Stravinsky Listening to Late Beethoven read by Andrew Motion |
| from Antigone read by Tony Harrison |
| Auf dem Wasser zu Singen read by Seamus Heaney |
| I think continually of those who were truly great a recording of a reading by Stephen Spender |