Description
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 Gardens | 11 Sailing to Byzantium |
| 2 Lake Isle of Innisfree | 12 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 Pig | 14 The Sorrow of Love |
| 5 The Arrow | 15 When You Are Old |
| 6 No Second Troy | 16 The Fascination of what’s Difficult |
| 7 On those that hated ‘The Playboy of the Western World’, 1907 | 17 The Second Coming |
| 8 The Cold Heaven | 18 To be Carved on a Stone at Thoor Ballylee |
| 9 The Wild Swans at Coole | 19 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.
in association with:
THE BOOK HOUSE, THAME 978-0-9935376-9-1
