Poetry Cafe 31: 20th c. Poetry: no. 5: Post-War Poetry

from the 1940s to the early 1960s

Poems read and Music played:-

1. Stevie Smith, ‚Not Waving but Drowning‘
2. Elizabeth Jennings, ‚One Flesh‘
3. John Betjeman, ‚Devonshire Street W.1‘
4. John Betjeman, ‚Miss J. Hunter Dunn‘
5. Dylan Thomas, ‚Do not go gentle ino that good night‘
7. Bob Dylan, ‚Mr Tambourine Man‘
8. Philip Larkin. ‚Annus Mirabilis‘
9. Philip Larkin, ‚This Be the Verse‘
10, Philip Larkin, ‚Coming‘
11. Thom Gunn, ‚Tamer and Hawk‘
12. Ted Hughes, ‚Pike‘
13. Sylvia Plath, ‚Daddy‘
14. Ted Hughes, ‚Perfect Light‘, from ‚Birthday Letters‘
15. Franz Schubert, Piano Sonata D959, Andantino, played live by Alfred Brendel