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The Complete Poems, 1985-1999

The Necklace, 1955

  1. Aesthetic (0:21): MP3
  2. Venice (0:38): MP3
  3. Nine Variations in a Chinese Winter Setting (1:52): MP3
  4. Eight Observations on the Nature of Eternity (1:35): MP3
  5. Suggestions for the Improvement of a Sunset (1:16): MP3
  6. Sea Change (00:57): MP3
  7. Through Binoculars (1:15): MP3
  8. Montage (0:26): MP3
  9. Dialogue (1:16): MP3
  10. Flute Music (1:19): MP3
  11. The Bead (0:33): MP3
  12. The Death of the Infanta (0:37): MP3
  13. The Art of Poetry (0:48): MP3
  14. Observation of Facts (1:21): MP3
  15. Fiascherino (1:41): MP3

Recorded in the Keele University music studio, 17 September 1985


Seeing Is Believing, 1958, 1960

  1. The Atlantic (1:22): MP3
  2. Winter Encounters (1:51): MP3
  3. Reflections (1:18): MP3
  4. Ponte Veneziano (1:02): MP3
  5. Oxen: Ploughing at Fiesole (1:17): MP3
  6. he Mediterranean (1:29): MP3
  7. Distinctions (0:46): MP3
  8. Variant on a Scrap of Conversation (0:47): MP3
  9. Icos (0:54): MP3
  10. How Still the Hawk (0:40): MP3
  11. Object in a Setting (0:55): MP3
  12. The Mausoleum (4:19): MP3
  13. Glass Grain (1:28): MP3
  14. Gli Scafari (0:43): MP3
  15. Tramontana at Lerici (1:44): MP3
  16. Northern Spring (1:45): MP3
  17. The Gorge (0:44): MP3
  18. On a Landscape by Li Ch'eng (0:50): MP3
  19. The Crane (0:55): MP3
  20. Paring the Apple (0:53): MP3
  21. Rose-hips (0:35): MP3
  22. More Foreign Cities (1:11): MP3
  23. At Delft (1:35): MP3
  24. The Jam Trap (0:56): MP3
  25. Poem (1:02): MP3
  26. A Meditation on John Constable (3:29): MP3
  27. Frondes Agrestes (1:19): MP3
  28. Geneva Restored (1:29): MP3
  29. Farewell to Van Gogh (1:06): MP3
  30. Cézanne at Aix (0:48): MP3
  31. In Defence of Metaphysics (0:57): MP3
  32. Reeds (0:52): MP3
  33. The Shell (1:08): MP3
  34. Night-Piece: The Near and the Far (0:51): MP3
  35. At Holwell Farm (1:30): MP3
  36. On the Hall at Stowey (4:46): MP3
  37. Stone Walls: At Chew Magna (0:39): MP3
  38. Cradock Newton: From an Epitaph (0:59): MP3
  39. The Castle (2:29): MP3
  40. Sconset (0:38): MP3
  41. Civilities of Lamplight (0:35): MP3
  42. Fire in a Dark Landscape (0:43): MP3
  43. The Request (1:32): MP3
  44. Château de Muzot (0:57): MP3
  45. The Ruin (1:11): MP3
  46. The Aqueduct (0:31): MP3
  47. Encounter (0:16): MP3
  48. Antecedents: A Homage and Valediction (0:13): MP3
  49. The Churchyard Wall (2:68): MP3
  50. Epitaph (0:29): MP3

Recorded in the Keele University music studio, 6 January 1986


A Peopled Landscape, 1963

  1. A Prelude (0:47): MP3
  2. Return to Hinton (3:34): MP3
  3. Winter-Piece (1:05): MP3
  4. History (0:33): MP3
  5. Lines (0:51): MP3
  6. Canal (1:51): MP3
  7. John Maydew, or The Allotment (2:41): MP3
  8. Steel: the night shift (1:09): MP3
  9. Crow (1:05): MP3
  10. Walking to Bells (0:45): MP3
  11. Portrait of Mrs. Spaxton (1:19): MP3
  12. The Farmer's Wife: at Fostons Ash (2:28): MP3
  13. The Death of Elizabeth Grieve (0:40): MP3
  14. The Hand at Callow Hill Farm (0:43): MP3
  15. Harvest Festival: at Ozleworth (1:43): MP3
  16. The Picture of J.T. in a Prospect of Stone (1:17): MP3
  17. The Chestnut Avenue: at Alton House (1:07): MP3
  18. Four Kantian Lyrics (4:19): MP3
  19. Up at La Serra (4:56): MP3
  20. Rhenish Winter (2:29): MP3
  21. The Archer (1:12): MP3
  22. Winter (0:37): MP3
  23. Le Musée Imaginaire (1:08): MP3
  24. At Wells: polyphony (0:31): MP3
  25. Sea Poem (0:48): MP3
  26. The Impalpabilities (0:49): MP3
  27. Maillol (2:43): MP3
  28. Palm of the Hand (0:40): MP3
  29. Flame (0:41): MP3
  30. Head Hewn with an Axe (0:39): MP3
  31. Black Nude (0:53): MP3
  32. Brilliant Silence (0:37): MP3
  33. Portrait in Stone (0:42): MP3
  34. The Wrestlers on the Vase (0:40): MP3
  35. Last Judgement (0:25): MP3
  36. The Beech (0:17): MP3
  37. The Tree (2:08): MP3
  38. The Gossamers (0:43): MP3
  39. The Barometer (1:14): MP3
  40. Cloud Change (0:37): MP3
  41. Letter from Costa Brava (0:36): MP3
  42. Chaconne for Unaccompanied Violin (0:42): MP3
  43. Ship's Waiters: for Marianne Moore (0:38): MP3
  44. The Flight (0:53): MP3
  45. Over Brooklyn Bridge (1:50): MP3
  46. Ode to Arnold Schoenberg (2:12): MP3

Recorded in the Keele University music studio, 7 January 1986


American Scenes and Other Poems, 1966

  • 1. Face and Image (1:36): MP3
  • 2. The Snow Fences (2:13): MP3
  • 3. The Fox (1:16): MP3
  • 4. Bone (1:08): MP3
  • 5. Wind (1:32): MP3
  • 6. The Door (0:59): MP3
  • 7. One World (0:50): MP3
  • 8. The Weathercocks (1:22): MP3
  • 9. The Hill (1:23): MP3
  • 10. A Given Grace (0:36): MP3
  • 11. Fruit, for Sculpture (0:35): MP3
  • 12. Saving the Appearances (1:09): MP3
  • 13. Through Closed Eyes (0:23): MP3
  • 14. In Winter Woods (5:45): MP3
  • 15. The Cavern (1:11): MP3
  • 16. Arizona Desert (1:23): MP3
  • 17. A Death in the Desert (1:18): MP3
  • 18. On the Mountain (1:20): MP3
  • 19. Las Trampas U.S.A (1:18): MP3
  • 20. Arroyo Seco (0:41): MP3
  • 21. Old Man at Valdez (0:40): MP3
  • 22. Mr. Brodsky (1:33): MP3
  • 23. Chief Standing Water (1:59): MP3
  • 24. At Barstow (1:40): MP3
  • 25. Arizona Highway (1:16): MP3
  • 26. Two Views of Two Ghost Towns (2:07): MP3
  • 27. Ute Mountain (1:10): MP3
  • 28. In Connecticut (1:06): MP3
  • 29. Maine Winter (0:46): MP3
  • 30. Letters from Amherst (1:26): MP3
  • 31. In Longfellow's Library (0:36): MP3
  • 32. On Eleventh Street (0:40): MP3
  • 33. A Garland for Thomas Eakins (2:52): MP3
  • 34. The Well (1:16): MP3
  • 35. On a Mexican Straw Christ (1:12): MP3
  • 36. On the Tlacolula Bus (1:05): MP3
  • 37. The Oaxaca Bus (1:52): MP3
  • 38. Constitution Day (1:15): MP3
  • 39. The Bootblack (1:18): MP3
  • 40. Theory of Regress (0:17): MP3
  • 41. In Michoachán (0:29): MP3
  • 42. Weeper in Jalisco (1:01): MP3
  • 43. Landscape (0:40): MP3
  • 44. Idyll (3:17): MP3
  • 45. Small Action Poem (0:38): MP3

Recorded in the Keele University music studio, 2 April 1986


The Way of a World, 1969

  • 1. Swimming Chenango Lake (3:13): MP3
  • 2. Prometheus (3:26): MP3
  • 3. A Dream, or the worst of both worlds (1:38): MP3
  • 4. A Word in Edgeways (0:56): MP3
  • 5. Eden (1:30): MP3
  • 6. Adam (1:35): MP3
  • 7. Night Transfigured (1:41): MP3
  • 8. Assassin (3:17): MP3
  • 9. Against Extremity (1:08): MP3
  • 10. In the Fullness of Time (1:28): MP3
  • 11. Music's Trinity (0:42): MP3
  • 12. Logic (1:35): MP3
  • 13. The Way of a World (1:25): MP3
  • 14. Descartes and the Stove (1:42): MP3
  • 15. The Question (1:13): MP3
  • 16. The View (1:22): MP3
  • 17. Weatherman (1:18): MP3
  • 18. On the Principle of Blowclocks (1:46): MP3
  • 19. Clouds (1:11): MP3
  • 20. Words for the Madrigalist (1:22): MP3
  • 21. Anecdote (0:22): MP3
  • 22. Arroyo Hondo (0:47): MP3
  • 23. The Matachines (2:16): MP3
  • 24. Before the Dance (0:58): MP3
  • 25. A Sense of Distance (0:00): MP3
  • 26. The Instance (0:48): MP3
  • 27. A Little Night Music (0:49): MP3
  • 28. The Awakening (0:57): MP3
  • 29. The Windshield (1:01): MP3
  • 30. Last Days of the Miser (1:46): MP3
  • 31. Rumour (1:16): MP3
  • 32. Terminal Tramps (3:47): MP3
  • 33. The Fox Gallery (1:06): MP3
  • 34. Frost (0:30): MP3
  • 35. Composition (1:06): MP3
  • 36. The Beautiful Aeroplane (0:52): MP3
  • 37. To Be Engraved on the Skull of a Cormorant (0:38): MP3
  • 38. Gull (0:19): MP3
  • 39. Oppositions: debate with Mallarmé (2:00): MP3
  • 40. Autumn (1:53): MP3
  • 41. Tout Entouré de Mon Regard (1:32): MP3
  • 42. Skullshapes (3:27): MP3
  • 43. The Daisies (1:19): MP3
  • 44. Poem (1:06): MP3
  • 45. Ceci n'est pas une Pipe (1:54): MP3
  • 46. A Process (2:16): MP3
  • 47. The Chances of Rhyme (2:11): MP3
  • 48. The End (1:20): MP3

Recorded in the Keele University music studio, 3 April 1986


Written on Water, 1972

  • 1. On Water (0:39): MP3
  • 2. Mackinnon's Boat (5:21): MP3
  • 3. The Thief's Journal (0:45): MP3
  • 4. Rower (2:49): MP3
  • 5. The Lighthouse (0:45): MP3
  • 6. Two poems on titles proposed by Octavio and Marie José Paz (1:27): MP3
  • 7. Stone Speech (0:49): MP3
  • 8. The Sea is Open to the Light (0:28): MP3
  • 9. Variation on Paz (0:42): MP3
  • 10. The Compact: at Volterra (2:44): MP3
  • 11. Two Poems of Lucio Piccolo (6:23): MP3
  • 12. At Sant' Antimo (0:27): MP3
  • 13. Tarquinia (1:04): MP3
  • 14. Santa Maria delle Nevi (1:08): MP3
  • 15. The Square (0:40): MP3
  • 16. Ariadne and the Minotaur (2:07): MP3
  • 17. Machiavelli in Exile (2:46): MP3
  • 18. Hawks (1:03): MP3
  • 19. Of Beginning Light (0:54): MP3
  • 20. Carscape (0:32): MP3
  • 21. Drive (0:59): MP3
  • 22. Legend (0:57): MP3
  • 23. Autumn Piece (0:42): MP3
  • 24. The White Van (1:16): MP3
  • 25. In October (0:30): MP3
  • 26. Urlicht (0:28): MP3
  • 27. Poem (0:23): MP3
  • 28. Appearance (1:07): MP3
  • 29. Ars Poetica (0:57): MP3
  • 30. Mélisande (1:09): MP3
  • 31. Dialectic (1:11): MP3
  • 32. The Night-Train (0:35): MP3
  • 33. Event (0:35): MP3
  • 34. Comedy (0:34): MP3
  • 35. Three Wagnerian Lyrics (1:21): MP3
  • 36. Over Elizabeth Bridge: a Circumvention (3:01): MP3
  • 37. In Memoriam Thomas Hardy (0:37): MP3
  • 38. Remembering Williams (0:34): MP3
  • 39. The Apparition (1:42): MP3
  • 40. Juliet's Garden (1:04): MP3
  • 41. Against Portraits (0:52): MP3
  • 42. Green Quinces (0:52): MP3
  • 43. During Rain (0:53): MP3
  • 44. Elegy for Henry Street (1:23): MP3
  • 45. Mistlines (1:17): MP3
  • 46. Movements I-IV (8:39): MP3
  • 47. Curtain Call (0:55): MP3

Recorded in the Keele University music studio, 29 July 1986


The Way In and Other Poems, 1974

  • 1. The Way In (3:25): MP3
  • 2. Night Ride (1:05): MP3
  • 3. At Stoke (1:04): MP3
  • 4. Hokusai on the Trent (0:42): MP3
  • 5. Etruria Vale (1:10): MP3
  • 6. Gladstone Street (1:53): MP3
  • 7. Dates: Penkhull New Road (1:53): MP3
  • 8. Portrait of the Artist I (0:42): MP3
  • 9. Portrait of the Artist II (1:28): MP3
  • 10. The Tree (0:50): MP3
  • 11. Midlands (0:29): MP3
  • 12. In the Ward (0:58): MP3
  • 13. The Marl Pits (1:10): MP3
  • 14. Class (0:42): MP3
  • 15. The Rich (1:17): MP3
  • 16. Bridges (0:44): MP3
  • 17. At Saint Mary's Church (1:13): MP3
  • 18. In a Brooklyn Park (0:35): MP3
  • 19. Under the Moon's Reign (1:24): MP3
  • 20. Foxes' Moon (1:27): MP3
  • 21. The Dream (2:08): MP3
  • 22. After a Death (2:42): MP3
  • 23. Elemental (0:16): MP3
  • 24. In December (0:17): MP3
  • 25. Hyphens (0:32): MP3
  • 26. In March (0:50): MP3
  • 27. Discrepancies (1:00): MP3
  • 28. The Last of Night (0:44): MP3
  • 29. The Witnesses (1:00): MP3
  • 30. Hill Walk (2:04): MP3
  • 31. Lacoste (0:58): MP3
  • 32. How Far (0:36): MP3
  • 33. Tiger Skull (0:46): MP3
  • 34. The Greeting (0:50): MP3
  • 35. The Insistence of Things (4:34): MP3
  • 36. Idrigill (0:56): MP3
  • 37. Of Lady Grange (5:22): MP3
  • 38. The Promise (0:40): MP3
  • 39. Marine (0:23): MP3
  • 40. Rubh An' Dunain (0:28): MP3
  • 41. Couplet (0:10): MP3
  • 42. Beethoven Attends the C Minor Seminar (2:10): MP3
  • 43. Consolations for Double Bass (1:34): MP3
  • 44. Melody (2:21): MP3
  • 45. Da Capo (0:43): MP3

Recorded in the Keele University music studio, 30 July 1986


The Shaft, 1978

  • 1. Charlotte Corday (4:14): MP3
  • 2. Marat Dead (2:33): MP3
  • 3. A Self-Portrait: David (0:41): MP3
  • 4. For Danton (2:25): MP3
  • 5. A Biography of the Author: A Cento (8:00): MP3
  • 6. Lines Written in the Euganean Hills (2:06): MP3
  • 7. Death in Venice (0:34): MP3
  • 8. Near Corinium (1:02): MP3
  • 9. Near York (1:14): MP3
  • 10. Casarola (2:17): MP3
  • 11. Portobello Carnival 1973 (1:29): MP3
  • 12. Prose Poem (2:19): MP3
  • 13. Departure (1:10): MP3
  • 14. Images of Perfection (1:16): MP3
  • 15. Rhymes (0:53): MP3
  • 16. The Perfection (0:34): MP3
  • 17. The Hesitation (0:39): MP3
  • 18. The Faring (1:16): MP3
  • 19. The Metamorphosis (1:01): MP3
  • 20. Below Tintern (1:02): MP3
  • 21. Providence (1:18): MP3
  • 22. Mushrooms (1:26): MP3
  • 23. In the Intensity of Final Light (1:02): MP3
  • 24. The Spring Symphony (1:32): MP3
  • 25. Nature Poem (1:05): MP3
  • 26. The Whip (0:43): MP3
  • 27. To See the Heron (0:56): MP3
  • 28. One Day of Autumn (0:41): MP3
  • 29. October (0:39): MP3
  • 30. Old Man's Beard (0:49): MP3
  • 31. ...Or Traveller's Joy (1:05): MP3
  • 32. In the Balance (0:54): MP3
  • 33. The Death of Will (1:11): MP3
  • 34. A Night at the Opera (1:43): MP3
  • 35. In the Studio (0:59): MP3
  • 36. Misprint (0:46): MP3
  • 37. Maintenant (0:16): MP3
  • 38. Sky Writing (0:48): MP3
  • 39. Into Distance (0:53): MP3
  • 40. Embassy (0:53): MP3
  • 41. The Race (0:33): MP3
  • 42. In Arden (1:47): MP3
  • 43. The Roe Deer (0:34): MP3
  • 44. The Shaft (1:41): MP3
  • 45. De Sole (0:20): MP3
  • 46. Macduff (1:13): MP3
  • 47. Tree (1:23): MP3
  • 48. The Gap (1:06): MP3
  • 49. The Scream (2:58): MP3
  • 50. Translating the Birds (1:32): MP3
  • 51. The Scar (1:00): MP3
  • 52. At Dawn: in memoriam Franklin M.Dickey (0:48): MP3

Recorded in the Keele University music studio, 17 December 1986


The Flood, 1981

  • 1. Snow Signs (2:05): MP3
  • 2. Their Voices Rang (0:49): MP3
  • 3. The Double Rainbow (0:37): MP3
  • 4. For Miriam (7:03): MP3
  • 5. The Recompense (2:24): MP3
  • 6. Poem (0:57): MP3
  • 7. In April (0:42): MP3
  • 8. The Order of Saying (0:37): MP3
  • 9. The Lesson (0:41): MP3
  • 10. Hay (1:07): MP3
  • 11. The Conspiracy (0:47): MP3
  • 12. The Gate (0:54): MP3
  • 13. At the Edge (1:08): MP3
  • 14. The Near and the Far (4:22): MP3
  • 15. Albuquerque (0:53): MP3
  • 16. Jemez (0:34): MP3
  • 17. Cochiti (0:35): MP3
  • 18. Abiquiu (0:53): MP3
  • 19. Quarai (0:56): MP3
  • 20. Under the Bridge (0:55): MP3
  • 21. Cronkhite Beach (1:03): MP3
  • 22. Poolville, N.Y. (0:44): MP3
  • 23. Parsnips (0:52): MP3
  • 24. Programme Note (3:58): MP3
  • 25. On a Pig's Head (1:41): MP3
  • 26. Ritornello (0:55): MP3
  • 27. San Fruttuos: the divers (4:53): MP3
  • 28. Above Carrara (1:33): MP3
  • 29. Fireflies (1:09): MP3
  • 30. Thunder in Tuscany (0:35): MP3
  • 31. Giovanni Diodati (1:13): MP3
  • 32. On a May Night (2:52): MP3
  • 33. Instead of an Essay (1:25): MP3
  • 34. Barque Nornen (0:33): MP3
  • 35. The Littleton Whale (4:24): MP3
  • 36. The Flood (6:33): MP3
  • 37. Severnside (2:12): MP3
  • 38. In the Estuary (1:38): MP3
  • 39. The Epilogue (1:36): MP3

Recorded in the Keele University music studio, 18 December 1986


Notes from New York and Other Poems, 1984

  • 1. The Landing (1:02): MP3
  • 2. Above Manhattan (1:03): MP3
  • 3. At the Trade Center (2:01): MP3
  • 4. On Madison (0:48): MP3
  • 5. What Virginia Said (0:42): MP3
  • 6. Crossing Brooklyn Ferry (0:38): MP3
  • 7. In Verdi Square (1:14): MP3
  • 8. Lament for Doormen (1:03): MP3
  • 9. All Afternoon (1:09): MP3
  • 10. The Arrival (0:51): MP3
  • 11. Byzantium (0:53): MP3
  • 12. The Mirror in the Roadway (0:46): MP3
  • 13. Hero Sandwiches (1:01): MP3
  • 14. Of a Winter Ball Game (1:07): MP3
  • 15. Ice Cream at Blauenberg (2:08): MP3
  • 16. From the Motorway (0:51): MP3
  • 17. To Ivor Gurney (0:52): MP3
  • 18. The Question (1:09): MP3
  • 19. Black Brook (0:58): MP3
  • 20. Poem for my Father (0:54): MP3
  • 21. The Journey (1:09): MP3
  • 22. The Arch (0:54): MP3
  • 23. Hedgerows (0:43): MP3
  • 24. The Shout (0:39): MP3
  • 25. High Summer (1:13): MP3
  • 26. The Quarry (0:47): MP3
  • 27. The Beech (1:18): MP3
  • 28. After the Storm (1:12): MP3
  • 29. Confluence (1:19): MP3
  • 30. In December (1:27): MP3
  • 31. At a Glance (1:03): MP3
  • 32. The Glacier (1:28): MP3
  • 33. Night Fishers (2:00): MP3
  • 34. Near Hartland (1:05): MP3
  • 35. Morwenna's Cliff (0:46): MP3
  • 36. Near Ceibwr (0:33): MP3
  • 37. At the Hill Fort (0:56): MP3
  • 38. The Moment (0:53): MP3
  • 39. Writing on Sand (0:57): MP3
  • 40. Van Gogh (1:15): MP3
  • 41. Legend (1:26): MP3
  • 42. The Sound of Time (0:37): MP3
  • 43. History of a Malady (5:00): MP3
  • 44. Desert Autumn (0:46): MP3
  • 45. Mictlantecuhtli (1:00): MP3
  • 46. At Trotsky's House (1:14): MP3
  • 47. Los Pobrecitos (0:35): MP3
  • 48. Teotihuacán (0:56): MP3
  • 49. Valle de Oaxaca (1:26): MP3
  • 50. Sight and Flight (4:50): MP3

Recorded in the Keele University music studio, 21 July 1987


The Return, 1987

  • 1. In the Borghese Gardens (2:36): MP3
  • 2. Revolution (1:11): MP3
  • 3. Fountain (1:10): MP3
  • 4. In San Clemente (1:05): MP3
  • 5. In the Gesù (0:39): MP3
  • 6. The Wind from Africa (0:50): MP3
  • 7. The Return: to Paolo Bertolani (10:35): MP3
  • 8. Tyrennhean (0:56): MP3
  • 9. Travelling (0:37): MP3
  • 10. Palermo (0:39): MP3
  • 11. Catacomb (3:35): MP3
  • 12. The Unpainted Mountain (2:23): MP3
  • 13. The Miracle of the Bottle and the Fishes (2:19): MP3
  • 14. Soutine at Céret (1:21): MP3
  • 15. Self-Portrait (0:46): MP3
  • 16. The Peak (1:29): MP3
  • 17. Netherlands (0:55): MP3
  • 18. Anniversary (1:02): MP3
  • 19. In Memory of George Oppen (1:01): MP3
  • 20. In Oklahoma (1:34): MP3
  • 21. Interpretations (1:22): MP3
  • 22. At Chimayó (5:59): MP3
  • 23. The Tax Inspector (1:22): MP3
  • 24. At Huexotla (1:08): MP3
  • 25. Machu Picchu (1:17): MP3
  • 26. Winter Journey (5:49): MP3
  • 27. Heron (1:15): MP3
  • 28. The Harbinger (0:51): MP3
  • 29. A Rose for Janet (0:43): MP3
  • 30. February (0:50): MP3
  • 31. Mid-March (1:04): MP3
  • 32. From Porlock (1:51): MP3
  • 33. The Well: for Norman Nicholson (1:12): MP3
  • 34. Coombe (1:15): MP3
  • 35. Hearing the Ways (0:47): MP3
  • 36. What Next? (1:00): MP3
  • 37. The Night Farm (0:39): MP3
  • 38. The Hawthorn in Trent Vale (0:48): MP3
  • 39. The Way Through (1:00): MP3
  • 40. Night Ferry (2:34): MP3
  • 41. Ararat (0:39): MP3

Recorded in the Keele University music studio, 15 September 1987


Annunciations, 1989

  • 1. Annunciation (1:50): MP3
  • 2. The Blade (0:53): MP3
  • 3. Variation (2:03): MP3
  • 4. In New Mexico (1:47): MP3
  • 5. Above the Rio Grande (1:39): MP3
  • 6. The Santa Fe Railroad (1:00): MP3
  • 7. Parking Lot (1:14): MP3
  • 8. Ailanthus (0:59): MP3
  • 9. Catalpa (0:52): MP3
  • 10. Acoma: the Round-up (1:01): MP3
  • 11. Here and There (1:36): MP3
  • 12. The Plaza (4:40): MP3
  • 13. In the Emperor's Garden (2:48): MP3
  • 14. Hudson River School (2:16): MP3
  • 15. Along the Mohawk (1:28): MP3
  • 16. Pines (1:08): MP3
  • 17. In the Steps of Emily Carr (1:32): MP3
  • 18. North with Lawren Harris (1:18): MP3
  • 19. Far Point (3:11): MP3
  • 20. Algoma (1:10): MP3
  • 21. Lines Written in the Bay of Lerici (1:21): MP3
  • 22. The Labyrinth (0:59): MP3
  • 23. Carrara Revisited (1:14): MP3
  • 24. The House in the Quarry (1:41): MP3
  • 25. At the Autumn Equinox (5:49): MP3
  • 26. Oxen (2:44): MP3
  • 27. The Butterflies (2:00): MP3
  • 28. Chronochromie (1:07): MP3
  • 29. Ruskin Remembered (1:19): MP3
  • 30. A Ruskinian Fable Retold: Courtesy (1:00): MP3
  • 31. Bluebells (0:55): MP3
  • 32. Harvest (1:31): MP3
  • 33. The Garden (5:19): MP3
  • 34. Letter to Uehata (1:01): MP3
  • 35. Apples Painted (1:09): MP3
  • 36. Winter (0:50): MP3
  • 37. The Cycle (1:05): MP3
  • 38. Two Poems for Fay Godwin (1:28): MP3
  • 39. Felix Randall (0:48): MP3
  • 40. Music and the Poet's Cat (0:45): MP3
  • 41. Ode to Dmitri Shostakovich (2:07): MP3
  • 42. Moonrise (0:57): MP3
  • 43. Orion over Farne (1:00): MP3
  • 44. Chance (1:15): MP3
  • 45. The Headland (1:10): MP3
  • 46. For a Godchild (0:43): MP3

Recorded in the Keele University music studio, 12 April 1989


The Door in the Wall, 1992

  • 1. The Operation (3:50): MP3
  • 2. The Clearance (1:07): MP3
  • 3. Siena in Sixty-Eight (1:50): MP3
  • 4. Paris in Sixty-Nine: for Octavio Paz (4:04): MP3
  • 5. In a Cambridge Garden : to the same (3:37): MP3
  • 6. Tübingen (4:23): MP3
  • 7. Blaubeuren (2:32): MP3
  • 8. Campos de Castilla (0:57): MP3
  • 9. The Door in the Wall (1:50): MP3
  • 10. At Bob Lucid's Place (0:55): MP3
  • 11. At Hanratty's (2:36): MP3
  • 12. Ode to San Francisco (1:29): MP3
  • 13. Porto Venere (0:53): MP3
  • 14. September Swamp (1:38): MP3
  • 15. The House on the Susquehanna (1:07): MP3
  • 16. North (2:57): MP3
  • 17. Geese Going South (2:18): MP3
  • 18. Upstate (2:26): MP3
  • 19. The Stair (1:35): MP3
  • 20. The Trees (1:01): MP3
  • 21. Fire (1:28): MP3
  • 22. December (1:52): MP3
  • 23. Hacienda (1:08): MP3
  • 24. The Autograph Tree (0:51): MP3
  • 25. Crossing Aguadilla (2:14): MP3
  • 26. San Juan (1:24): MP3
  • 27. From Gloucestershire (1:55): MP3
  • 28. Sight and Sound (1:32): MP3
  • 29. A Glade (0:59): MP3
  • 30. The Choice (0:50): MP3
  • 31. On the Shannon (1:16): MP3
  • 32. In a Cornish Church (0:46): MP3
  • 33. Response to Hopkins (1:31): MP3
  • 34. Hartland Cliff (1:16): MP3
  • 35. Song (0:45): MP3
  • 36. Second Song (0:56): MP3
  • 37. February (0:48): MP3
  • 38. The Broom (1:39): MP3
  • 39. On a Passage from Hardy's Life (0:55): MP3
  • 40. A Note Left on Finding Two People Asleep (0:52): MP3
  • 41. Before the Concert (0:58): MP3
  • 42. The Prisoner (1:08): MP3
  • 43. On a Collage of Marie José Paz (0:53): MP3
  • 44. On a Glass Engraving by Peter David (1:14): MP3
  • 45. Portrait of Hands: Hals (1:18): MP3
  • 46. On a Dutch Picture (1:09): MP3
  • 47. The Discovery (0:43): MP3
  • 48. Lunar (0:49): MP3
  • 49. The Morning Moon (0:44): MP3
  • 50. Picking Mushrooms by Moonlight (1:01): MP3

Recorded at the poet's home in Gloucestershire, 21 May 1995


Jubilation, 1995

  • 1. For a Granddaughter (8:49): MP3
  • 2. Against Travel (1:01): MP3
  • 3. The Cypresses (3:55): MP3
  • 4. Lago di Como (1:08): MP3
  • 5. Varenna (0:46): MP3
  • 6. Asolo (0:42): MP3
  • 7. To Vasko Popa in Rome (2:29): MP3
  • 8. San Carlo ai Catinari (1:05): MP3
  • 9. Roman Fugue (0:43): MP3
  • 10. Gutenberg and the Grapes (0:44): MP3
  • 11. Horizons (1:21): MP3
  • 12. Valestrieri (1:07): MP3
  • 13. Down from Colonnata (1:19): MP3
  • 14. A Retrospect: 1951-91 (1:48): MP3
  • 15. Portuguese Pieces (6:04): MP3
  • 16. Zipangu (9:46): MP3
  • 17. Interior (1:03): MP3
  • 18. Snapshot. (0:47): MP3
  • 19. The Improvement (0:58): MP3
  • 20. To A Yorkshireman in Devon (3:07): MP3
  • 21. Crossing the Moor (1:06): MP3
  • 22. Hay Tor (1:09): MP3
  • 23. Jubilación (5:03): MP3
  • 24. Durham in March (1:11): MP3
  • 25. Near Bickering (1:07): MP3
  • 26. Autumn (0:49): MP3
  • 27. Weather Report (1:12): MP3
  • 28. Cosmology (1:06): MP3
  • 29. December (0:45): MP3
  • 30. The Track of the Deer (0:30): MP3
  • 31. To a Photographer (0:59): MP3
  • 32. The Shadow (1:09): MP3
  • 33. Walks (1:17): MP3
  • 34. Transaction at Mallards Pike (1:18): MP3
  • 35. The Song of Adam (0:42): MP3
  • 36. To a Christian Concerning Ivor Gurney (1:07): MP3
  • 37. 9 a.m (1:14): MP3
  • 38. Knowledge (0:31): MP3
  • 39. On the Late Plane (0:59): MP3

Recorded at the poet's home in Gloucestershire, 21 May 1995


The Vineyard Above the Sea, 1999

  • 1. Verse (0:40): MP3
  • 2. A Festivity (1:37): MP3
  • 3. Mythology (1:39): MP3
  • 4. In Abruzzo (1:34): MP3
  • 5. Trebiano (4:21): MP3
  • 6. The Vineyard Above the Sea (1:32): MP3
  • 7. Fonte Gaia (0:39): MP3
  • 8. News (1:08): MP3
  • 9. Oporto (1:27): MP3
  • 10. Rua do Carriçal (1:31): MP3
  • 11. The Green Balloon (2:14): MP3
  • 12. Hellas (9:09): MP3
  • 13. On the Dunes (2:01): MP3
  • 14. Shorelines (1:15): MP3
  • 15. Directions (1:25): MP3
  • 16. In the Room (0:40): MP3
  • 17. The Gift (1:24): MP3
  • 18. Poem (1:42): MP3
  • 19. For Want of Seraphim (0:48): MP3
  • 20. Measure (0:41): MP3
  • 21. Wall (3:44): MP3
  • 22. Snowbound (1:17): MP3
  • 23. Blackthorn Winter (0:29): MP3
  • 24. Drawing Down the Moon (1:12): MP3
  • 25. Storm Song (1:02): MP3
  • 26. The Tree House (1:08): MP3
  • 27. The Blossom (0:49): MP3
  • 28. Listening to Leaves (0:56): MP3
  • 29. Gibbet (0:36): MP3
  • 30. In Winter (0:55): MP3
  • 31. The Sisters (0:51): MP3
  • 32. To Modulate (0:52): MP3
  • 33. The First Death: in memoriam Bruce Chatwin (1:45): MP3
  • 34. Another Summer (0:54): MP3
  • 35. To Robert Creeley in the Judaean Desert (0:43): MP3
  • 36. Then: for Frances Partridge (1:00): MP3
  • 37. In Memoriam Ángel Crespo 1926-1995 (1:11): MP3
  • 38. MacDiarmid (0:46): MP3
  • 39. History of a House (2:03): MP3
  • 40. By Night (1:15): MP3

Recorded at the poet's home in Gloucestershire, 29 August 2001


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