Notes from PS!1
Pam Ayres (Mary Kitchen)
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Agricultural Caress, John Betjeman (David Carroll)
https://poeticresolution.wordpress.com/2015/03/18/agricultural-caress-by-john-betjeman/
The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God, J Milton Hayes (Jeremy Furtado)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheGreenEyeoftheYellowGod
Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day? (Sonnet 18) Shakespeare (Annie Sulston)
http://www.shakespeare-online.com/sonnets/18.html
Oxbode Lane, Spoonbed Farm from Nursery Rhymes of Gloucestershire, ERP Berryman (Heather Cresswell)
Oxbode Lane can be seen here
https://www.visit-gloucestershire.co.uk/old-gloucester/even-more-gloucester-in-the-1900s/
thanks to Terry’s heads up, the farm (nr Stroud) here
https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101223628-spoonbed-farmhouse-painswick#.YAUzu-n7RmA
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister, Robert Browning (Lesley Brain)
http://victorian-era.org/images/Soliloquy-of-the-Spanish-Cloister.pdf
Excerpt from Song of Songs (Marian Carroll)
note from Elvin: The poem Rise up my love is better known by me with the title My beloved spake. … three composers having added music to it. Henry Purcell was the earliest (Sarah - this is the one I know https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4DQJ7XD9KE)
Then a Patrick Hadley version (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjULGCnpYaI)
… version by John Sanders, Organist & Master of the Choristers at Gloucester Cathedral 1967 to 1993, which I know … sung this in 16 concerts over the years! John's version was recorded onto CD by the choir of Gonville & Caius, Cambridge, 2004 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKMFg0I5yMU)
Concorde, EA Walshe (Clive Harper)
https://allpoetry.com/poem/9674155-Concorde-by-albertted74 As of 18.1.21, documentary available BBC iPlayer, The Virus that Killed the Jumbo Jet includes comparison of Concorde/747
The Angel of the North, Adam Clarke
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/angel-of-the-north/ A number of people concurred with Clive that visiting the sculpture is a unique and special experience https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AngeloftheNorth
Warning, Jenny Joseph (Diana Way)
Some commented that we didn’t know anything else by Joseph except this lovely example, ‘the UK's "most popular post-war poem" in a 1996 poll by the BBC’. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JennyJoseph
Not my Best Side, UA Fanthorpe (Rosie Walker)
This recording includes the Uccello picture on which Fanthorpe based the poem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcOeuC7vw_A
Rosie also read the requested BC:AD by UAF
http://www.seedsofsilence.org.uk/u-a-fanthorpe---bcad.html
The Eve of St Agnes, John Keats (Alan Chacon)
Alan apologised that there was only time for some excepts - here it is in its entirely
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44470/the-eve-of-st-agnes