25 April 2011
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MÄkaro Press, 2014
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About Me
- Helen Rickerby
- Wellington, New Zealand
- Poet, publisher, editor. My most recent poetry collection, Cinema was published in 2014. I'm managing editor of Seraph Press and co-managing editor of JAAM literary magazine.
Cinema
MÄkaro Press, 2014
Heading North
Kilmog Press, 2010
My Iron Spine
My second poetry collection (HeadworX, 2008)
Abstract Internal Furniture
My first collection of poetry (HeadworX 2001)
Seraph Press
Seraph Press: my publishing company
JAAM literary magazine
The official Tuesday Poem blog
My poetry online
Writing-related blogs
- A Dark Feathered Art
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- Elbows on the table
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- Giant Sparrow
- Helen Squared
- i never thought it would come to this
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- Poetry Archive of New Zealand Aotearoa
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- The Imaginary Museum
- The Peripatetic Poetess
- the sound of butterflies
- Trendy But Casual
- Why I Write
7 comments:
OMG - Helen I watched this one and was going to choose it - at almost the exact time you were posting. That is so spooky. But as you say, I wasn't sure about his voice - does stentorian do it? Then I found the Hollow Man with another reader, and being Anzac Day chose that one. Still, spooky, spooky....
I, too, love this poem--and am now gnashing my teeth that you have beaten me to posting it. :)
I'm pretty sure I listened to this recording at University. Very nostalgic!
I have to say it reminds me of Fry & Laurie, just the way he pronounces some words.
This is a fabulous recording!
Mary, that's hilarious! I was also looking through the versions of 'The Hollow Men' on YouTube, but I couldn't find one that was actually read by T. S. - otherwise I would have used that.
Emma, I know what you mean. I felt like the voice sounded so familiar. I didn't think of Fry and Laurie, but I was reaching into my memory for something. I came up with Denis Glover (you can hear a bit of him reading 'The Magpies' about 30 secs into to this: http://www.nzonscreen.com/title/between-the-lines-2005), and then Winston Churchill (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6llT2ZYg-4E). They're all that very proper English accent I guess.
Which is especially interesting, since Eliot was born in the US and didn't move to England until he was 26, if I read my quick skim of his biography aright.
Tim, you're quite right - he was from the States. Possibly he became more English than the English. I remember someone telling me that some more upper-class US accents from that period still sounded English - perhaps much like in NZ? - or maybe New England accents were more like that. Not that Eliot was from New England, but he studied there - at Harvard. I made the mistake of reading a biography of him a couple of years ago - I liked him a lot less afterwards.
Good choice. I'm reading 'The love song . . .' with scholarship students.
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