Sylvia Plath
Making a start on reading poetry out loud I found something quite thrilling on the web. I had been reading Sylvia Plath's poem 'Lady Lazarus' and wondering if it is the fact I know a lot about her that made the poem so moving. Would I have been as moved if it had been written by a person I knew nothing about? Then I heard this! A recording of Lady Lazarus read by Sylvia Plath.
posted by Buggles Balham High Road at 2:35 PM
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It's always useful to hear the poet read - though, as you discovered with Browning, not always in a good way.
I once saw Ted Hughes (Mr Plath, as it were) perform his poems. By all accounts he was a very powerful reader. When I saw him, he was so pissed he could barely say a word...
On your OU book, I can't comment, cause I can't work out from the A215 site what it is, and Amazon isn't helping.
Rob - try here:
A215 website linked from the C&Q page
Listen to me discussing poetry - I still can't believe it. Just reading Maryln Hacker and 'From Orient Point'
Rather like the three lines with the first and the last rhyming together and the middle line of the three rhyming throughout. I think I could have a go at that.
Thank's for this link Bluefluff.
It makes it much clearer what I'm talking about.
Yes, I'd already found the site, but the book must not be commercially available, and I can't see who wrote it. I note that Sara Haslam is on the course team - she is very good on one of my favourite novelists Ford Madox Ford.
I think it is commercially available Rob because lots of students are in the online A215 conference and thinking of doing the course in its second year in 2007 so went and bought the hardback edition without registering for the course so they could get ahead.
How great that you know a member of the course team. I've noted the professional name. Thanks.
try http://www.undermilkwood.net/
to hear dylan thomas and - oh glory of glories - richard burton reading under milk wood - the whole thing! i don't know if it's in your course but you might like it anyway.
Thanks for the link WestCoaster. I need to listen to as much as I can to get rythms and flows going.
Interesting this! I have just researched Sara Haslam following on from your comment Rob and found that she has produced a CD-ROM on the poetry of Thomas Hardy.
http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/Literature/haslam.htm
Rob - the paperback ISBN is 0-415-37243-7 & Bookbutler will find it for you :-)
oh dear morning loves it: I loved you hooking me up with this sound archive. Have you found more? I fell in love (again) with sylvia this summer reading her "letters home" and have been keen to hear her reading. thanks!
however i would be interested in further listening, also to more modern great, experimenting poets/sound artists, so please feel free to hand over any treasures you have :)
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Thanks Lynne - found the book now: it's listed by Amazon -now - as published January 26th, so you OU students have got advanced copies.
Looks like a very solid handbook. I shall do my bit for institutional solidarity by mentioning two books by colleagues of mine in this field:
Robert Graham and pals The Road to Somewhere
and
Ailsa Cox Writing Short Stories
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