Tom Paulin reads W. B. Yeats

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No one reads Yeats half as well. As the reader will see from poems presented here, Paulin’s Yeats is not a predictable one, but a personal one, which in this case is to say a poet’s one. It’s a treat not to be missed.

 

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The degree to which Yeats matters and has always mattered to Tom Paulin has emerged into view in recent years through public readings. While the recording here was made in a studio, and lacks the buzz of audience reaction or the impromptu of encore, it is typical otherwise of Paulin’s approach, in its preferences too. No one reads Yeats half as well. As the reader will see from poems presented here, Paulin’s Yeats is not a predictable one, but a personal one, which in this case is to say a poet’s one. It’s a treat not to be missed.

1  Down by the Salley Gardens11  Sailing to Byzantium
2  Lake Isle of Innisfree12  In Memory of Eva Gore-Booth and Con Markievicz
3  Who Goes with Fergus?13  Mad as the Mist and Snow
4  Valley of the Black Pig14  The Sorrow of Love
5  The Arrow15  When You Are Old
6  No Second Troy16  The Fascination of what’s Difficult
7  On those that hated ‘The Playboy of the Western World’, 190717  The Second Coming
8  The Cold Heaven18  To be Carved on a Stone at Thoor Ballylee
9  The Wild Swans at Coole19  The Circus Animals Desertion
10  Sixteen Dead Men

Words: Recording arranged and edited by Adrian Leibowitz of common custom: documentary and archive. Recorded by Peter Normanton of Pennyland Music. With thanks to Deborah Morgan

Music: The Glen of Aherlow/Tomeen O’Dea’s performed by Saileog NíCheannabháin. Recorded, mixed and mastered by Jack Talty, Lissycasey, Co. Clare, Ireland

Images: ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree’, ‘Ben Bulben’ ©Norman Ackroyd

Duration: 30 mins.

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