CATCHING LIFE BY THE THROAT by Josephine Hart, A cast of actors ( 9781405502597 )

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Title:

CATCHING LIFE BY THE THROAT
HOW TO READ POETRY AND WHY

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Downloadable audio file

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ISBN 10:

1405502592

ISBN 13:

9781405502597

Publisher:

LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP

Pub. date:

2 November, 2006

Edition:

Abridged edition

Pages:

320

Description:

Following the hugely successful Josephine Hart Poetry Hours at the British Library where actors such as Roger Moore and Juliet Stevenson have read poetry from Auden to Eliot, from Larkin to Plath - comes the audiobook of those readings

Synopsis:

This audiobook is an anthology of poems by WH Auden, TS Eliot, Philip Larkin, Emily Dickinson, Marianne Moore, Rudyard Kipling, Sylvia Plath and W B Yeats, introduced by Josephine Hart and read by a cast of famous actors: Ralph Fiennes, Edward Fox, Ian McDiarmid, Helen McCrory, Sir Roger Moore, Harold Pinter, Elizabeth McGovern, Harriet Walter, Sir Bob Geldof, Sinead Cusack, Grey Gowrie, Rupert Graves and Juliet Stevenson. 'The idea is simple,' says Josephine Hart as she introduces the poets and takes us through their life and writings, 'an understanding of the life and philosophy of the poet illuminates the poetry and therefore makes the experience of reading or listening to each poem more intense.' Whether you believe, like Robert Frost, that poetry is a way of catching life by the throat or, like Eliot, it is one person talking to another, nobody does it better than the poets whose work and life will feature in this publication.

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Imprint:

Hachette Audio

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Returnable

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