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Catching Life by the Throat

How to Read Poetry and Why

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Catching Life by the Throat

Written by: Josephine Hart
Narrated by: Ralph Fiennes, Roger Moore, Juliet Stevenson
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 Here is an audiobook of the hugely successful Josephine Hart Poetry Hours at the British Library. Actors such as Roger Moore and Juliet Stevenson read poetry from Auden to Eliot and from Larkin to Plath.©2006 Joesphine Hart (P)2006 Hachette Audio and British Library Literature & Fiction Poetry World Literature
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"For several years, the writer Josephine Hart has been persuading stars to perform at her poetic soirees in London's British Library. You could have predicted that tough, terse Harold Pinter would make a good fist of Philip Larkin's poems, but suave Roger Moore doing Rudyard Kipling? Yet the deathbed imprecations of the bluff father to his disappointing son in his poem The Mary Gloster are simply spellbinding in Moore's reading. The sound quality is patchy with audience coughs and titters, but it is nevertheless poetry's greatest hits read by the A-list: Ralph Fiennes does WH Auden, Edward Fox takes on TS Eliot, and Bob Geldof reads WB Yeats." ( The Sunday Times, Audiobook of the Week)

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Great Exposure to Poetry

The narration is informative and to the point, the readers are all clear and well paced. I learned a lot and got some great exposure to poetry.

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