[Michael Juster]

I had a tape I used to play in my car tape deck (I'll explain that technology later for the young folks) that had a marvelous reading by Dylan Thomas in which the riffs between the poems were even more magical than the poems. The line that stuck with me was: "There are no poetry audiences, just occasional gatherings of eccentrics."

I used that line in the Collins manuscript.

[ross hamilton hill]

I've been plugging two Neruda poems produced by the Four Seasons production company, there are Neruda poems read Neruda but the two YouTubes by Four Seasons which are Inclinado En Las Tardes ( leaning into the afternoons) and Poema 20 combine film, music, recitation in Spanish and English subtitles, they are my favourite spoken poems.

[W.F. Lantry]

Michael,

There are some surprising things out there, in voices I never thought to hear:

A possibly authentic recording of the good gray poet:

http://www.whitmanarchive.org/multimedia/

Something for the Tennyson lovers among us:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkqUq26z1CE

"Did not the poet sing it with such airs
That one believed he had a sword upstairs" :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2FT4_UUa4I

Best,

Bill