Tom Leonard

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Selected Poems, Recorded at the Scottish Trades Union Congress Centre, Glasgow, April 29th, 2011

1. The Dropout (0:35): MP3
2. Moral philosophy (0:25): MP3
3. doon the close (0:31): MP3
4. Yon Night (0:32): MP3
5. a summer's day (0:21): MP3
6. ahma hoarss (1:16): MP3
7. six oclocknews (0:41): MP3
8. its aw the fault of the unions (0:35): MP3
9. humpty dumpty (0:23): MP3
10. liason co-ordinator (0:47): MP3
11. 100 Differences between Poetry and Prose (2:03): MP3
12. An Ayshire Mother (2:47): MP3
13. Blair's Britain (1:23): MP3
14. Five translated songs from Mother Courage (12:15): MP3
15. Being a Human Being (1:09): MP3
16. The Fair Cop (5:38): MP3
17. Remembrance Day (1:29): MP3
18. Epithalamium (2:28): MP3
19. nora's place (8:00): MP3
20. June the Second (1:06): MP3
21. In Hospital (0:41): MP3
22. Odysseus (0:44): MP3
23. A humanist (1:19): MP3
24. A life (1:51): MP3

Reading at Oran Mor, Glasgow, December 10, 2005

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'Unrelated Incidents' - No.3

this is thi
six a clock
news thi
man said n
thi reason
a talk wia
BBC accent
iz coz yi
widny wahnt
mi ti talk
aboot thi
trooth wia
voice lik
wanna yoo
scruff. if
a toktaboot
thi trooth
lik wanna yoo
scruff yi
widny thingk
it wuz troo.
jist wanna yoo
scruff tokn.
thirza right
way ti spell
ana right way
to tok it. this
is me tokn yir
right way a
spellin. this
is ma trooth.
yooz doant no
thi trooth
yirsellz cawz
yi canny talk
right. this is
the six a clock
nyooz. belt up.

Full text on Tom Leonard's Website.

"A Priest Came on at Merkland Street," recorded for a CD at Big Al's Soundhouse. Easter Farm, Busby, Glasgow, 1996

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"Nora's Place," recorded for Radio Denmark, mid 1990's

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